preamble
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Before this happens, however, we get a preamble.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
And there's been some verbal jousting in the preamble to Sunday.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
A trading firm can save a few nanoseconds by sending the preamble first, before knowing if it wants to trade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
Under the rules of the Ethernet protocol—widely used in computer networks—each packet starts with a preamble, signaling data is on the way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
With little preamble Geyer showed her a photograph of Holmes.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing preamble
Walk the Walk: Amb
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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100 SAT words Beginning with "P"
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