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Prefacing your interview in Salon, Cynthia Joyce made reference to
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Prefacing a statement with “I think” can make it less aggressive and more disarming, which is occasionally useful.
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Prefacing a statement with “I think” can make it less aggressive and more disarming, which is occasionally useful.
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Prefacing the collection with an apt chorale setting, they could surely have concluded it with Bach's famous "deathbed chorale".
Bach: The Art of Fugue, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – review 2010
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Prefacing his comments with the disclaimer that he had no financial interest in any particular brands, he did reveal that he liked the Neutrogena and Roc lines, and that he recommends them to his patients.
Marcia G. Yerman: Retin A - What Can It Do for Your Skin? 2010
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Prefacing his 1863 invitation to observe a day of thanksgiving, Lincoln proclaims:
Jim Thomas: Thanksgiving Day: A Perspective For Gratitude 2009
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Prefacing a statement with the english equivelent "Just kidding" is almost irrelevent if you are suggesting something criminal.
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Prefacing an absolutely ridiculous assertion supported by what evidence? by "I'm not saying" doesn't give you the right of pulling a complicated conspiracy out of your ass whereby the Obama campaign goes out and hires some meth heads to drive around with sniper rifles so they will get arrested and can claim they were intent on killing Obama just to make him more sympathetic.
"Do you think they were really plotting to kill Obama?" Ann Althouse 2008
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Prefacing a question about the challenges of winning over white, blue-collar voters, the reporter offered this observation: “They think you are un-American,” he said.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Prefacing Irish writer Edmund Burke from 1756, Critic Alix Ohlin suggests a contemporary sublime, a time in which we are faced with "terrible emotion,""terror" and "transformation."
Archive 2007-05-01 Lemon Hound 2007
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