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Discover LudwigThe phrase "prefacing with" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when introducing a statement or piece of information by providing context or background beforehand. Example: "Prefacing with a brief overview of the topic will help the audience understand the main points better."
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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".
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It's a move most artists preface with several years of compromising, but in the Internet era, it may become a more rapid phenomenon.
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".
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.
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).
Let me preface with this: I am aware that this situation is an outlier.
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.
In a nutshell, it concerns prefacing "intelligence" with adjectives, in this case "artificial".
She played two of those here, prefacing each with an excerpt from the source material.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com