prelude

As much as Baker tried to keep his focus on Kent, however, many kept telling him that this visit was a prelude to his induction next summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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

Much of the Wall Street community sees the split as likely a prelude to another round of industry consolidation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

Everything so far had been prelude: From what we’d been told, you could be a star at the Academy and then fall flat on your face inside a real prison.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Phil creative chair, he programs the Green Umbrella series, and it was significant that Glass preludes preceded a weekend devoted to Adams and his influence at Disney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

In an interview, Darius said that his father had a shelf full of music theory books, and kept the scores of Bach and Shostakovich preludes and fugues next to his piano for reference.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023

But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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

In 1756 the Seven Years’ War was preluded by a swift descent of the French on Minorca.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

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

From Time Magazine Archive

At its conclusion the evangelist resumes his narrative, followed by the chorale: "Break forth, O beauteous, heavenly Light," preluding the announcement of the angel, "Behold, I bring you Good Tidings."

From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

A march, blown from Egyptian trumpets, followed, preluding the dance of priestesses which precedes the tenor's return.

From The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus

Scarcely had the orchestra ceased preluding and the singer brought out the first notes of his song, than Barber slowly rose from his seat.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

Another symphony intervenes, preluding the celebration of the feast of the new moon in the palace, to which David has been invited.

From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton