preface

Leo has previously referenced Dylan in his own work, quoting Dylan's unreleased anti-nuclear song, Go Away You Bomb, in the preface to a book titled Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Leo, the first US pope, quoted a Bob Dylan lyric in the preface to a book about disarmament published earlier this year, according to Vatican News.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

We’re happy to preface that no act this year was overwhelmingly horrendous, like the Go-Go’s last year at Cruel World.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

As the laureate of Puritan New England explained in a preface, “the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

As history, the preface is bunk, because in 1651 progress was new.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Mr. Zygar prefaces each chapter with a childhood or family memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

This is how New Orleans community organizer Malik Rahim prefaces the calm before “Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time” plunges into one of the deadliest storms in American history.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025

Benedict then largely kept to his word that he would live a life of prayer in retirement, emerging only occasionally from his converted monastery for special events and writing occasional book prefaces and messages.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

The triumphant arrival of “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” prefaces what could be the strongest month for the North American box office since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2021

The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Visitors were dazzled by color-television demonstrations and the Picturephone, an early video-calling system that prefaced technologies developed decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Answers tend to be prefaced with the word 'we' rather than 'me'.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

The rerelease of “Z” was prefaced earlier this year with a full-album show at the Palladium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

Elsewhere, pro-Palestinian demonstrations prefaced Italy's vital win over Israel and Spain took another step towards qualification with a big victory against Bulgaria.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

“It’s just the beginning,” I prefaced, handing her the sketch pad.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025

Afterward, two staff members led a discussion with the students, prefacing that talk with a disclaimer saying that they were not speaking on behalf of the university.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Merchan briefly discussed the transcript issue with jurors and Necheles proceeded to show them the correct version, prefacing her remarks with a mea culpa: “Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for that error.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

She, too, wanted to dream up rich fictional lives in lieu of what she saw at the time as the burden of prefacing her story with an explanation of her mixed-race identity and upbringing.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2021

Emenike talked for a long time, often prefacing a story with “The thing you have to understand about this country is this.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie