prelude

Keurig Dr Pepper struck a deal to buy Peet’s Coffee owner JDE Peet’s for $18 billion last year, a prelude to spinning off its coffee brands into a separate public company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

As much as Baker tried to keep his focus on Kent, however, many kept telling him that this visit was a prelude to his induction next summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He called for a comprehensive ceasefire as a prelude to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

Yet while an increase in wholesale prices is a prelude of sorts to what consumers end up paying for goods and services, the relationship is far from exact.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

The prelude began, Lillian Woodward playing too slowly.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

It has also caused speculation among Russian analysts and the country’s political class over whether it preludes another draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He started playing piano at the age of two and, at just 17, gave a remarkable two-and-a-half-hour concert featuring the 24 preludes and fugues by composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024

After intermission came the second book of Debussy’s preludes, more convincing but not the old Pollini.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

You might know two or three of his chorale preludes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

The piano music got closer; it was Chopin, one of the preludes, maybe.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The Taliban did not issue a formal statement on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that preluded them being driven from power 20 years earlier.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2021

Similar marches have since preluded Pride events across the country.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2019

Seventy years later, it was lost to the modern urges that preluded the Seattle Century 21 World’s Fair.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when an organism is about to undergo mutation, the change is often preluded by frequent and extensive variations.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

They were preluding a Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Conference to be held in Tokyo in 1934.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beethoven said to me, "I thought Himmel had just been preluding."

From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

At its conclusion the evangelist resumes his narrative, followed by the chorale: "Break forth, O beauteous, heavenly Light," preluding the announcement of the angel, "Behold, I bring you Good Tidings."

From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

He was heating them, preluding a score, passing from it to another.

From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus

Sometimes Kirkwood without preluding, would utter a line for Phil to cap; they even composed sonnets in this antiphonal fashion and pronounced them superior to the average magazine product.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson