- plural of preliminary.
preliminaries
Example Sentences
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Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's • Jun. 28, 2026
Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
It’s time to start reaching peak form when the preliminaries will take place on Thursday at Birmingham High in preparation for next Thursday’s finals at the same venue.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
As the preliminaries drew to a close, Mike’s friends gradually started coming upstairs to join him.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024
Without any preliminaries, he picked up the cat, turned him over on his back, deftly held his head and paws and began the lesson.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
