prolegomenon

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prolegomenon
Noun
  • Out of roughly 400 technical journals active in 1965, only about 20 remained by 1969, indicating a near-cessation of formal scientific discourse.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The assassination of popular conservative commentator Charlie Kirk last week sent shockwaves throughout the United States, sparking new discourse on a growing wave of violence that risks normalizing the use of force to achieve political aims.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Donohue, a one-on-one discussion with Hunt and a later meeting with his constituents further complicated his decision.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If both polls and discussions with my friends are anything to go by, Americans feel forever locked in a state of political conflict.
    Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For now, the study provides proof of concept.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Edelman and his wife, Michelle Edelman – a trailblazer in art and design who has led Traffic Creative Management and TrafficArts since 1996 – acquired Martins’ first study titled Watchman (2018), recognizing a powerful force in the global art world.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Nir Kshetri does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Information for this article was contributed by Lisa Mascaro and Hannah Fingerhut of The Associated Press.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shipp is tasked with scolding her father and delivering leaden exposition.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
  • By bypassing a lengthy exposition, we are thrown straight into the story and are either informed via the boys talking to each other while walking or by showing brief flashbacks.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The thirty-page note is less a theological treatise than an ethical report.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Trump’s friend Rudy Giuliani, after his successful leadership as mayor of New York during 9/11, wrote a compelling treatise on leadership and offered 14 principles for would-be leaders.
    Michael Eric Siegel, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It is baked into how we are taught to write essays, report the news, attend meetings and even dinner parties.
    Sarah Stein Lubrano, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In a first-person essay published in Sports Illustrated in 2013, Collins wrote about his sexuality and became the first openly gay player in any of the four major North American men's professional sports leagues.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Also consider quick text check-ins that still keep you present with the group.
    Brittany Vickers, Essence, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Prolegomenon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolegomenon. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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