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[!INCLUDE[field-preview](../../includes/field-preview.md)]

The contextual keyword `field`, added as a preview feature in C# 13, can be used in a property accessor to access the compiler synthesized backing field of a property. This syntax enables you to define the body of a `get` or `set` accessor and let the compiler generate the other accessor as it would in an automatically implemented property.
The contextual keyword `field`, added in C# 13, can be used in a property accessor to access the compiler synthesized backing field of a property. This syntax enables you to define the body of a `get` or `set` accessor and let the compiler generate the other accessor as it would in an automatically implemented property.

The addition of the `field` contextual keywords provides a smooth path to add benefits such as range checking to an automatically implemented property. This practice is shown in the following example:

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