preliminary
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"The PM's proposal has given a political direction. Our ministry is working with other relevant agencies to put forward a preliminary framework which can be the basis for building common understanding," the official said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Strater said similar ICE arrests were occurring in the Coachella Valley and in Ventura County, where a preliminary injunction is in place restricting civil arrests without a warrant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
The preliminary results suggested that exercise could lower autophagy activity in blood cells toward levels more typical of younger adults.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The National Park Service recently signed a preliminary agreement for a land swap with a Las Vegas developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
We have made a preliminary reconnaissance and have encountered some of the inhabitants.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
Aside from the bartender, there was only one person actually braving the record-breaking 110-degree heat on the roof and watching UFC preliminaries on the wall-mounted TV: a gregarious, stocky, bespectacled older man named Mike.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024
What he looked like was a middleweight who fought preliminaries in Atlantic City.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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