prefatory
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In a prefatory note, he confesses his anxiety about this practice, asking rhetorically, “you can’t just make up quotes, can you?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
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
As Chin writes in a prefatory author’s note, her family’s history traveled down to her primarily via oral history.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
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
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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