overture
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Almodóvar has found himself in a similar position, turning down an overture from a Saudi festival.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
South Korea said Friday it will reclassify North Korea's long-banned state newspaper as general information, easing public access, in the latest overture from the administration of dovish President Lee Jae Myung.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
Pyongyang has not responded to the overture from Lee, who has sought to mend fractured ties with the North.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
There is no written record that Lawrence replied to the overture, although around the same time, he registered a private opinion of the federation—and of scientific activism in general—in a letter to Weaver.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing overture
To Kill a Mockingbird
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