overture

Example Sentences

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Pakistan offered to mediate peace talks, an overture President Trump amplified on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 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

In another overture, he persuaded Jessica Tisch—the city’s police commissioner—to stay in her job in his administration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

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

So the capture of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry served as quite a neat overture for all that followed.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson