groundwork

Example Sentences

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He wants the headlines, but without doing the hard graft to lay the groundwork needed for peace to be durable.

From BBC

Artemis II is not scheduled to land on the Moon, but will instead lay the groundwork for a future lunar landing led by the Artemis III mission.

From BBC

Long before Vijay launched his party, his cinema had thus already done the ideological groundwork.

From BBC

They followed the band from show to show, trading precious performance tapes, and helped to lay the groundwork for a jam-band scene that still thrives today.

From The Wall Street Journal

That could lay the groundwork for tens of billions of dollars in new U.S. energy investment in Venezuela.

From MarketWatch