preamble
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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
In the millions of words said and written in the preamble to this game, in all the different scenarios presented about how it might all pan out, nobody came up with this.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025
The hope, the optimism, the feelgood swirling around Hampden in the preamble was gone.
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025
He gives us plenty of time to think about what we’re really watching: not must-see television, but the preamble to a funeral.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025
“There’s corned beef so you can make sandwiches for lunch,” Aunty Uju had said, as though those words were perfectly normal and did not require a humorous preamble about how Americans ate bread for lunch.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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