pre·print
ˈprē-ˌprint 
ˌprē-ˈprint
1
: an issue of a technical paper often in preliminary form before its publication in a journal
2
: something (such as an advertisement) printed before the rest of the publication in which it is to appear
Examples of preprint in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
The way our culture has changed in some ways… Back in 2007, only a fraction of mathematicians made their preprints available before publishing.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
Swift’s team shared their surprising new research at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in June and posted a preprint of their paper on the online server Arxiv in August.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
The first preprint paper to come out from the superalignment team showcases one way the researchers tried to get around that constraint.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2023
In a paper posted to the preprint server arxiv.org in November, the researchers showed how to transform Penrose tilings into an entirely new type of quantum error-correcting code.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
The study, which was posted to the preprint server bioRxiv last month and has not yet been peer reviewed, also examined the Iranian ancestry of Indian people and found that a migration out of Africa around 50,000 years ago contributed most of India’s current genetic diversity.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
The company plans to describe the work in a scientific paper that will be posted on the bioRxiv preprint server.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
The answer, at least in part, is: the research that a pair of highly influential users of X (formerly Twitter) choose to highlight, according to a new preprint from researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2024
Julie Washington, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
Scientists are good at creating new ways of sharing information, from the World Wide Web to preprint servers like arXiv.
—Iulia Georgescu, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
Although journals have tried to speed up peer review, many authors bypass it altogether by uploading working papers to preprint sites.
—The Economist, 30 May 2020
Over the past few months, scientists around the world have embarked on similar efforts to identify medicines that might treat Covid-19, posting their work to preprint servers and debating the merits of various approaches.
—Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
This objection has fallen by the wayside in response to widespread support for the value that preprints confer.
—Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 23 Mar. 2020
Some are posting their work to preprint servers, a practice that, while common in fields like physics, has never taken off in biology.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2016
In today’s preprinted Food & Dining section, the Summer Eating List reported that Pizzeria Portofino would be open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
There is a page-numbering error in some editions of Sunday’s preprinted Real Estate section.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
Noun
Criterion would track down the original negative or best-surviving preprint version, then hire technicians to scan the film, remove blemishes when possible and correct colors that may have faded or turned pink over time.
—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
The way our culture has changed in some ways… Back in 2007, only a fraction of mathematicians made their preprints available before publishing.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
Swift’s team shared their surprising new research at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in June and posted a preprint of their paper on the online server Arxiv in August.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
The first preprint paper to come out from the superalignment team showcases one way the researchers tried to get around that constraint.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2023
In a paper posted to the preprint server arxiv.org in November, the researchers showed how to transform Penrose tilings into an entirely new type of quantum error-correcting code.
—Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024
The study, which was posted to the preprint server bioRxiv last month and has not yet been peer reviewed, also examined the Iranian ancestry of Indian people and found that a migration out of Africa around 50,000 years ago contributed most of India’s current genetic diversity.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
The company plans to describe the work in a scientific paper that will be posted on the bioRxiv preprint server.
—Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
The answer, at least in part, is: the research that a pair of highly influential users of X (formerly Twitter) choose to highlight, according to a new preprint from researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2024
Verb
The study was released to preprint recently and has not been peer reviewed.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
Scientists are good at creating new ways of sharing information, from the World Wide Web to preprint servers like arXiv.
—Iulia Georgescu, Wired, 28 Sep. 2021
Although journals have tried to speed up peer review, many authors bypass it altogether by uploading working papers to preprint sites.
—The Economist, 30 May 2020
Over the past few months, scientists around the world have embarked on similar efforts to identify medicines that might treat Covid-19, posting their work to preprint servers and debating the merits of various approaches.
—Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
This objection has fallen by the wayside in response to widespread support for the value that preprints confer.
—Jeffrey S. Flier, STAT, 23 Mar. 2020
Some are posting their work to preprint servers, a practice that, while common in fields like physics, has never taken off in biology.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2016
In today’s preprinted Food & Dining section, the Summer Eating List reported that Pizzeria Portofino would be open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019
There is a page-numbering error in some editions of Sunday’s preprinted Real Estate section.
—Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2018
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