prelude

Keurig Dr Pepper struck a deal to buy Peet’s Coffee owner JDE Peet’s for $18 billion last year, a prelude to spinning off its coffee brands into a separate public company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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 prelude: We need more love in things.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

He called for a comprehensive ceasefire as a prelude to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

It was all a prelude to what began on July 27, 1919.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

This was followed by four elusive Scriabin miniature preludes, Opus 22, and Scriabin’s harmonic flight-of-fancy Opus 28 Fantasie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

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

It hosted world gymnastics and track titles, both of which were preludes to the World Cup, which is costing the country an estimated $220 billion.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

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

Last week came a Luther Day which was notable because it preluded bigger celebrations, to be held Nov. 10 on the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Logically, he concludes the work by recalling the theme of his hero upon whose life he has preluded so tunefully.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In the midst of silence, with no preluding sound, he is wrapped in sudden light.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

It is terrible, it is magnificent; one seems to hear the chorus of the abysses of the old world preluding a new chaos.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams

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

Then Della Rocca seated himself at the piano, and, preluding softly, strayed from harmony to harmony into the songs he had composed for Nancy.

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres