prelude

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

Shares fell around 6% when Apple responded to the cost increases by raising prices on Macs and iPads, a prelude to similar price hikes expected for its primary product, the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

In the opening prelude of Parsifal’s third act, the music shifts and slides around, avoiding settling on one key or chord for more than one beat.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

Preparatory to his copious History of the Stuarts, he had preluded by two smaller works his “Critical History of England,” and his “Clarendon and Whitelocke Compared.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"Too bad about old Wiggy," he remarked with his preluding sigh.

From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson

They are preluding gently, playing elaborately fugued variations on a dance tune in three-eighth time, rendered singularly plaintive by the absence of perfect closes.

From Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee

Again atmosphere is evoked and the mood achieved by the lyre preluding of the poet.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker