preliminaries

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Tennyson never made it to the Southern Section track preliminaries after winning the league title.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 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

As the preliminaries drew to a close, Mike’s friends gradually started coming upstairs to join him.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024

After a successful debut at Tokyo 2020, the skateboarding got under way in Paris with Britons Sky Brown and Lola Tambling competing in the women's park preliminaries.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024

He had been fighting preliminaries for nearly three years and knew his limitations and abilities.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers