prefatory
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But biologists studying everything from yeast to snakes to humans have recently unearthed a plethora of so-called noncanonical ORFs, which lack those prefatory snippets and are shorter than average.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 24, 2024
The Amendment's prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys, for instance, is exuberantly illustrated by Francis Vallejo and carries a prefatory essay by the award-winning Afrofuturist Nalo Hopkinson.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019
After struggling through the five nearly inscrutable prefatory poems, I put the book down for a week before taking it up again.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019
The compass allows you to navigate out of sight of land and, naturally, Edward Wright’s prefatory letter to On the Magnet mentions the circumnavigations of the Earth by English sailors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Power Prefix: Pre-
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