prelude

Painful, for sure, but a prelude to a stirring second half from the striker and his new-old team-mates.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The aim is to introduce more transparency to this practice as a prelude to reforming it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A 2023 victory over Troy Williamson should have been Agyarko's springboard to bigger fights but it proved little more than a prelude to a frustrating 12 months with just one low-key outing.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking.

From "1984" by George Orwell

It has also caused speculation among Russian analysts and the country’s political class over whether it preludes another draft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He started playing piano at the age of two and, at just 17, gave a remarkable two-and-a-half-hour concert featuring the 24 preludes and fugues by composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024

After intermission came the second book of Debussy’s preludes, more convincing but not the old Pollini.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

Pollutants like nitric oxide and sulfur dioxide build up black crusts on the marble, “like tartar that preludes cavities in teeth,” Mr. Canali said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The Taliban did not issue a formal statement on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that preluded them being driven from power 20 years earlier.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2021

Similar marches have since preluded Pride events across the country.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2019

Seventy years later, it was lost to the modern urges that preluded the Seattle Century 21 World’s Fair.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2018

Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to Jean now that it mattered little whether this grey hour of rain and silence preluded life or death.

From Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton

They were preluding a Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Conference to be held in Tokyo in 1934.

From Time Magazine Archive

It shall be christened henceforward collective or simultaneous love, though I might also, if I and Kolbe chose, let it be named preluding love,–confederate-tenderness,–general warmth,–the fidelity of adopted childhood.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

He was merely preluding in that fashion which the exactitude of the Tuscan law requires, and replying to the interesting interrogatories regarding his former life, so essential to a due understanding of his present complaint.

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever

Through the closed curtains comes the early sun,     First a pale finger, preluding the hand.

From Poems by Edward Shanks

Nancy turned to Della Rocca, who was preluding carelessly with smooth fingers and all his smiles alight.

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres