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plural preambles
A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute. quotations examples
The consultation preamble explains: "The planned timetable will be introduced in 2025 once we have completed the necessary steps required to ensure that we have enough resources to do so.
2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 58
(computing, networking) A syncword. examples
third-person singular simple present preambles, present participle preambling, simple past and past participle preambled
(intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks. quotations examples
But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.
1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312–313
Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.
1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20
So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?
2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, page 473