prolegomenon

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prolegomenon
Noun
  • In previous generations, national figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall and James Baldwin played critical roles in helping to guide public discourse on the subject of race.
    Anne Tapp Jaksa, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Cassell occasionally brings this discourse to life as a panel host and guest.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a new Good Hang podcast discussion with Abbott Elementary's Quinta Brunson, Poehler discussed developing Leslie as a character ahead of the show's 2009 pilot episode, right down to the strikingly blonde hair on her head and what that said about the character at the time.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Johnson said Wednesday’s discussions involved not only House lawmakers, but Republicans in the Senate, as well.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Khalil finished his graduate studies at Columbia in December and is set to graduate in the spring.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Yet 117 studies on workplace listening reveal that many managers aren’t good listeners.
    Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher, Harvard Business Review, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • OneNote's clipper can grab an entire website, a portion of a website, or just the content of an article.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Another article noted insurance companies are expected to raise equity investments from RMB 50 billion to RMB 162 billion this year.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Slow and unsteady Karma: The Dark World is a slow game, both in its exposition and its occasionally frustrating slow walking speed.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The real-time feel of Adolescence means there are no flashbacks or exposition, and the audience learns everything just as the investigators and Jamie's family do.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The movie tries so hard to put forth a sweeping treatise on the paradox of a Black bodybuilder, to be a study of Black masculinity.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Fitzgerald first encountered Kaczynski’s treatise in July 1995, shortly after Kaczynski anonymously mailed the typewritten manuscript to The Times and The Washington Post, demanding its publication in exchange for his promise to stop killing people with package bombs.
    Charles Homans, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In his dozens of novels, plays and essays, Vargas Llosa told stories from various viewpoints and experimented with form, moving back and forth in time and switching narrators.
    Reuters, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Bonhoeffer scholars and relatives warn the German pastor is being transformed by varied sources — filmmakers, Metaxas’ writings and statements, and essays from conservative scholars evoking Bonhoeffer to support the MAGA movement — into a Christian nationalist warrior.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 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.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • But as seen in the proposal scene, the liberties Wright takes with the text lends to the appeal of his adaptation.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Prolegomenon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolegomenon. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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