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

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

I dropped the prefatory clause, since everyone ignores anyway.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2023

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