overture
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The company has moved to monetize some of its real estate but rejected the takeover overture in 2024.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
During his second year in California, at age 26—a mere overture to Mr. Ryan’s career, which ended at age 46—he threw 326 innings.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Almodóvar has found himself in a similar position, turning down an overture from a Saudi festival.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
They played a duet from “Zampa,” and at the earnest solicitation of everyone present followed it with the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant” Allez vous-enl Sapristir shrieked the parrot outside the door.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
Vocabulary lists containing overture
To Kill a Mockingbird
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