prelude

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The company said layoffs were a necessary prelude to modernizing the facility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

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 the indispensable prelude to talks on a test ban.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

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 Edgar Fawcett

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

But this operation should not be performed in presence of the public; and, moreover, every instrumental noise—every kind of preluding between the acts—constitutes a real offence to all civilized auditors.

From The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art by Hector Berlioz

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