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

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

A prefatory note: I confess that I didn’t realize that I would have to do some work to prepare these turkeys.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2018

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