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# How to pronounce "prefiguring" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA**: `/prɛfɪgʌrɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **pre·fi·gu·ring**

## Meaning & Usage

### VERB
- present participle and gerund of prefigure

### NOUN
- A specific instance in which something is prefigured
  - *Example*: "This book’s culture clashes are every bit as memorable as its eerie prefigurings of the present financial meltdowns."

### Example Sentences
- "This book’s culture clashes are every bit as memorable as its eerie prefigurings of the present financial meltdowns."
- "unconscious uh prefiguring of the course his own life would take, Wittmann makes"
- "of course not only prefiguring the internet but also coming out of the moment of the Vietnam War famously the first televised war which"

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "prefiguring" in real conversation:

### Example 1
*Accent: US*
> "transcend poetry. But after this subtle and surely unconscious uh prefiguring of the course his own life would take, Wittmann makes a quiet attempt to reconcile himself to his own"
- **Watch at 34:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkSfFCsCAug&t=2088s)

### Example 2
*Accent: US*
> "of course not only prefiguring the internet but also coming out of the moment of the Vietnam War famously the first televised war which"
- **Watch at 46:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lisT8UX70&t=2808s)

### Example 3
*Accent: US*
> "type of divine grace prefiguring the true lamb, Christ our God, who has been"
- **Watch at 35:03**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5kBA5rcIpk&t=2103s)

### Example 4
*Accent: US*
> "blacks so kind of prefiguring a time when segregation and other kind of state"
- **Watch at 16:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz3gpUCNRiY&t=1019s)

### Example 5
> "There's no gluten in flour. There's only the potential for gluten. Here's another kind of prefiguring of epoxy because we've got glutenin and gliadin, neither of which are strong enough to make a good bread. But when they get hydrated and they bond to each other, they create a stronger molecule, a stronger protein we call gluten."
- **Watch at 4:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK8Yk3mEEb8&t=267s)

### Example 6
*Accent: US*
> "the law rather than the prefiguring. The fulfillment rather than the prefiguring."
- **Watch at 35:28**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5kBA5rcIpk&t=2128s)

### Example 7
> "build what you would call single page applications like gmail and they were using javascript locally to compute things and to call the server on a hidden frame in the background so it was prefiguring a lot of what came later as ajax or dynamic javascript dynamic html so people saw that i mean even when they saw it that's kind of i don't know from my perspective that seems quite brilliant this it seems like really"
- **Watch at 51:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE&t=3099s)

### Example 8
*Accent: US*
> "strangely Blended became to him a kind of prefiguring type of"
- **Watch at 314:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksn2pwKN0WI&t=18844s)

### Example 9
*Accent: AUS*
> "anxiety Research Center is doing with big trauma big change is prefiguring a world where services are holistic led by"
- **Watch at 1:43**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8c_9e8oloo&t=103s)

### Example 10
> "First, like abolitionism, it was an international movement. Often American feminists travelled abroad to find allies, prefiguring the later transatlantic movement of other advocates for social justice like Florence Kelley and W. E. B DuBois. Secondly, for the most part, like other reform movements, the women’s movement was primarily a middle-class or even upper class effort."
- **Watch at 10:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1czS_VYDI&t=602s)


## How to Pronounce "prefiguring"

- **Syllables**: pre · fi · gu · ring
- **IPA**: `/prɛfɪgʌrɪng/`
- **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech.

## Related Words

### Word Forms
[prefigure](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/prefigure)


## Related Pronunciations

[pre](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pre), [preabdomen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdomen), [preabdominal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabdominal), [preablated](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablated), [preablation](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preablation), [preabortal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortal), [preabortion](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabortion), [preabsorb](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/preabsorb)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce “prefiguring”?
“prefiguring” is pronounced /prɛfɪgʌrɪng/ (pre · fi · gu · ring). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

### How many syllables are in “prefiguring”?
“prefiguring” has 4 syllables: pre · fi · gu · ring.

### What does “prefiguring” mean?
present participle and gerund of prefigure

### How can I hear “prefiguring” used in real sentences?
This page has 15 real-world video examples of “prefiguring” with synchronized subtitles. Use Previous / Next (or ← / → keys) to hear each one at the exact moment it is spoken.


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