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Discover LudwigThe phrase "preface with" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to introduce or introduce something before the main part of a sentence or conversation. Example: Before discussing the main theme of the novel, the author prefaced with a brief summary of the main characters and their relationships.
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Mr Rogers even plays in the preface with the idea that Ayer was somewhat autistic.
It's a move most artists preface with several years of compromising, but in the Internet era, it may become a more rapid phenomenon.
Heminge and Condell, the editors of the 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare's works, end their short preface with the exhortation "Reade him, therefore; and againe and againe".
Meanwhile the neo-Darwinist atheists (a word Sacks never fails to preface with the word "angry", which makes me SO mad) are causing the "moral equivalent of climate change".
Given how many things -- politics, economics, cultural moods and movements -- we preface with amorphous terms like "post," "trans," "global" and "multi," we're clearly in a state of high anxiety about how to define them.
Information is delayed, not always purposefully, so that it is some time, for instance, before we learn what is inscribed on the Oven ('...the Furrow of His brow', which different generations want to preface with different verbs beware or be).
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The show's most tender moment is a wistful "I Never Has Seen Snow," from the Harold Arlen-Truman collaborationoration "House of Flowers," which Ms. Moreno prefaces with some affectionate Arlen anecdotes.
Romney brought up his prospective changes to Medicare by prefacing with, "If you're 60 or older, you don't have to listen any further".
Aiming the screen at the silent sculpture, she hastily prefaces with a modest disclaimer—"We're still in beta"—nevertheless, the display hesitates for only an instant before sparking to life.
She goes to the gospel well for "Oh Freedom" with Mavis Staples and a solo "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," which she prefaces with a story about singing it for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
T-Mobile actually had some major news with Apple today, and he chose to preface it with a patented tirade against "those greedy bastards," AT&T and Verizon.
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