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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

A 2023 victory over Troy Williamson should have been Agyarko's springboard to bigger fights but it proved little more than a prelude to a frustrating 12 months with just one low-key outing.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Outside, I head straight for my tube tunnel, my footsteps on the ladder a prelude to peace and quiet.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

You might know two or three of his chorale preludes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

The piano music got closer; it was Chopin, one of the preludes, maybe.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Italian poetry, preluded by the canzonets of Guido Cavalcanti and his rivals, rose to its fullest grandeur in the 'Commedia' of Dante.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He was merely preluding in that fashion which the exactitude of the Tuscan law requires, and replying to the interesting interrogatories regarding his former life, so essential to a due understanding of his present complaint.

From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever

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

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

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