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foreword

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


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He wrote the foreword for the scholarly book “California Grizzly” and from his Montana home keeps an eye on the well-being of his home state’s precariously small colony of grizzlies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The book, co-authored by Darren Grubb and Johnny Russo, featured a foreword by Letterman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Roth was guided by what the critic Paul Goldberger, in his foreword to this book, calls “a strong knowledge not only of architectural history, but of urban propriety.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

“George Martin: The Scores,” which will be published in April and feature a foreword by Paul McCartney, highlights Martin’s singular influence in making their corpus a reality for the ages.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

My godfather, Alex Haley, bequeathed me the opportunity to write this foreword to my father’s autobiography.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

That insight is taken up in a series of forewords by contemporary writers, and here the results are uneven.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

Bestselling authors Leigh Bardugo, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell are contributing forewords to new editions of three famed Marvel Comics series.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Their separate forewords to the committee’s final report, released Thursday, tell what united these unlikely partners.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2022

We do not meet here to-day as critics with our appreciations and depreciations, our twopenny little prefaces or our forewords.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain


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