prelude
Example Sentences
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Rate checks are considered a prelude to actual intervention and involve central banks contacting commercial lenders to get price quotes for currency trades.
It was a prelude to the chaos and calamity that was to come this season.
From BBC
It was a striking prelude to "Body to Body", the album's first full track, interwoven with Korea's most iconic folk song and the album's namesake, Arirang.
From BBC
Some felt it was not a prelude to arrest.
From Literature
This, though, doesn’t look like a prelude to a recession.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
