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

His peregrinations are the prelude to a love story as passionate as it is fleeting.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

This shameful incident, from which Sumner never fully recovered, served as a prelude to the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

His wife was playing the piano; Chopin, a prelude.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

As a child, she was drawn to the lyricism of his preludes for piano, even as she followed a strict conservatory regimen of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 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

The Abbé de Retz, then twenty-five, preluded his adventurous career by this attempt at civil war.

From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Sutherland Menzies

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

From Time Magazine Archive

They made three distinct charges, preluding always with the bugle, on the right, left and centre, confusing the point of attack; then, with a cheer and up they came.

From The Falling Flag Evacuation of Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox by Edward M. Boykin

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

I am sure she will give us something lovely; see, she is preluding with her airs and graces.

From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

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

From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres