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The phrase "a preface to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a section or content that provides background or context for what follows.
Example: "The author included a preface to the book, explaining the inspiration behind the story."
Alternatives: "an introduction to" or "a foreword to".
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No, Paul Auster won't write a preface to your book.
What I'm referencing is a preface to those best practices.
This chapter is a preface to the book, "Computational Flow Modeling for Chemical Reactor Engineering".
All this polychrome ingenuity was but a preface to the novelty of the program.
This article was originally written as a preface to a collection of essays by Liu Xiaobo.
"Nor did those accounts, like, gin up a preface to the Obama remark — a la Doocy".
"Mr. Brodeur, would you explain," he would say, as a preface to a typical question.
In a preface to "Day," he wrote that he did not see the car coming.
But in a preface to the recent reissue of his book "Can Poetry Matter?
The writing is a Preface to a Special Issue of Applied Clay Science Clay Minerals Researchch in China.
I was asked recently to write a preface to a book on Plato.
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