prelude

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

Yet while an increase in wholesale prices is a prelude of sorts to what consumers end up paying for goods and services, the relationship is far from exact.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

It could be the biggest IPO ever but it also might just be the prelude for a record-breaking merger.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

It was a prelude to the chaos and calamity that was to come this season.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Although I did not respond to these overtures, the mere fact that they were talking rather than attacking could be seen as a prelude to genuine negotiations.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

The novenario meals were preludes to the funeral reception, held at Torres Banquet Hall near St. Alphonsus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

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

And grim narratives aren’t necessarily preludes to capitulation.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2022

Too impatient to endure a long range diet, he went on radical diets that seemed like preludes to famine.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

We've never liked each other, as I said, and I preluded my remarks with this statement because I want to show you why, from to-day henceforward, we are open foes.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This is what I heard: The dark-skinned youth, who looked like the priestly and uninteresting Siloti, sat down and began idly preluding.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James

Again, after a preluding silence, the guitar as magically responded as before; the sparks quivered along its strings; and again Pierre felt as in the immediate presence of the spirit.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

I was all eagerness, and presently he was absently preluding at my piano.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James

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 Saltus, Edgar