preamble
Example Sentences
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“Too many approaches to peace-building foster perpetual dependency, and institutionalize crisis rather than leading people beyond it,” the charter’s preamble says, calling for “a coalition of willing States committed to practical cooperation and effective action.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
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
But this is mere preamble to the galleries below.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 24, 2025
Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
