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foreword

[fawr-wurd, -werd, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌwɜrd, -wərd, ˈfoʊr- /


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While perusing them, he said he discovered that the foreword to their book had been plagiarized from an article written by a BBC reporter.

From The Wall Street Journal May 24, 2026

But in the foreword to the draft childcare strategy, Givan said he had been "ambitious but realistic".

From BBC Dec. 17, 2025

In a foreword to the WFP's 2026 Global Outlook report, she said the world's response "remains slow, fragmented and underfunded".

From Barron's Nov. 18, 2025

“By the start of shooting on Monday, that sucker sank,” director and writer James Cameron, Landau’s longtime collaborator, wrote in the foreword to Landau’s new book.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2025

Professor Albus Dumbledore agreed to provide a foreword that met the case, and we were both delighted that the book raised so much money for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

Harris himself has contributed to Pickering's book - published by Manchester University Press - writing one of four forewords along with Martin Fry, Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher along with a separate chapter.

From BBC May 2, 2026

I guess that’s my procrastination, because I’m reading the forewords to all his books.

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2022

Although she put away her pen, Cleary re-released three of her most cherished books with three famous fans writing forewords for the new editions.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2021

For a hint of what those of us outside the golden circle of overachievement are missing, Chabon obligingly taxonomizes the merits of felicitous forewords.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2019

Happily my own are sufficiently numerous to afford me some scope in the indulgence of this passion for forewords.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend




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