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Visitors were dazzled by color-television demonstrations and the Picturephone, an early video-calling system that prefaced technologies developed decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Elsewhere, pro-Palestinian demonstrations prefaced Italy's vital win over Israel and Spain took another step towards qualification with a big victory against Bulgaria.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Questions about Ten Hag’s future were deliberately prefaced with "even if you were to lose heavily today", which is exactly what happened.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

Perhaps Harris’ loudest statement, however, was prefaced by her absence.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2024

Some days, many days, only a death toll was announced, prefaced by a reiteration of the general situation.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri