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The phrase "authoritative introduction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a comprehensive and reliable overview or presentation of a subject or topic.
Example: "The book provides an authoritative introduction to the principles of economics, making it accessible for beginners."
Alternatives: "definitive introduction" or "comprehensive introduction".
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I'm often asked if I can recommend one authoritative introduction to wine.
Clever integration between Lauren Child's original artwork and 12 well-known pictures - from Fra Angelico and Botticelli to Picasso and Jackson Pollock - make this a visual treat as well as an authoritative introduction to ways of looking at art.
Compiled by the Chinese Buddhist monk Daoyun in 1004, Records of the Transmission of the Lamp (Chingde chongdeng lu) offers an authoritative introduction to the origins and nature of Zen Buddhism.
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Authoritative and engaging introduction to a catalogue of political miscalculation from Eisenhower and the Suez crisis to the war in Iraq.
As the dramatic music played in the introduction, Lester Holt's authoritative voice told me what I needed to know for the day.
In a succinct introduction, David Bindman, the author of several authoritative volumes on Blake as an artist, tells how Blake, trained as an engraver, invented a technique for printing word and image together, which he called "Illuminated" printing.
It is not easy or rather impossible to make a review even the most important and authoritative publications devoted to these issues in a short Introduction.
His passion for such birds found its outlet in several books, which ranged from a detailed and authoritative monograph on the gannet (The Gannet, 1978) to a concise introduction to the same species in the popular Shire Natural History series (1979).
The introduction of bylines, first at Newsweek and then at Time, made the authoritative tone more difficult to maintain.
In a recent 37-chapter authoritative textbook entitled Clinical and Translational Science (4), we had to wait until chapter 35 to read an introduction to epidemiology, which relegates the contributions of epidemiology to an afterthought in the translational sciences.
The WHO report on medication adherence published in 2003 [ 1] offers an authoritative summary of the state of knowledge before 2002; we have provided a review of this foundational literature in the introduction of the current manuscript.
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