preamble

That preamble of course gives no power whatsoever to the federal government to do anything.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026

Three years later, as war dragged on, a group comprising members of the North’s major Protestant denominations urged a change to the preamble of the U.S.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Before this happens, however, we get a preamble.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

And there's been some verbal jousting in the preamble to Sunday.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

I referred them to the preamble of the Freedom Charter: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In any case, most of what goes into the preambles of DOT regulatory documents is just “word salad,” one staffer recalled the presenter saying.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026

As a violinist, I hope that something of the streams’ sensibility survives: Mumbled preambles and tableside teddy bears unmoved by the Bach Chaconne are refreshing the genre for far-flung audiences.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020

This is apparent right from Star Wars’ famous opening scroll, which borrows from the preambles that opened each chapter of the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers movie serials.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2015

I could write a preamble that would skilfully draw together every single strand of this match, but I'm afraid our tools don't support 9994-word preambles.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2010

Now if the doctrines of policy contained in these preambles, and the force of these examples in the acts of Parliament, avail anything, what can be said against applying them with regard to America?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke