overture
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Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide” made the traditional fireworks display all the more magical.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
“Superpower accelerates AI data center development by providing gigawatts of new capacity and advances the development and certification of the Overture supersonic airliner by providing engine reliability data,” the statement added.
From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025
Known as Overture, the aircraft is designed to cruise at Mach 1.7 on transoceanic routes, or twice as fast as today’s airliners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
And Rossini’s “Semiramide” Overture on Thursday lacked the steadily accumulating propulsion, even through lyrical passages, that is the piece’s reason for being; the soufflé never really rose.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023
Artemis imagined that somewhere the 1812 Overture was playing.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Vocabulary lists containing overture
To Kill a Mockingbird
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