preliminaries
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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
The City Section track preliminaries and finals will be run on Birmingham High’s new Mondo track, which is like running on a carpet and improves times.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 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
Along with Cassius, I really was more worried about how his brother Rudolph was going to do, fighting his first pro fight in the preliminaries.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
