prelude

“War,” premiering Thursday on HBO, is the satisfying story of a divorce, or rather the prelude to a divorce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

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

The council resolved that the ANC would hold demonstrations on April 6, 1952, as a prelude to the launching of the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

Logically, he concludes the work by recalling the theme of his hero upon whose life he has preluded so tunefully.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Stitchley, who purposely had partaken of a light luncheon and no tea, was particularly loud in her encomiums, preluding each sausage-roll she took, from the sixth onwards, with some fresh adjective.

From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins

There is no preluding, there are no intricate harmonies: the key-note is struck in the opening chord, and the theme is kept conspicuously in view throughout all the modulations.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

Through the closed curtains comes the early sun,     First a pale finger, preluding the hand.

From Poems by Edward Shanks

At the moment when the present history begins, the vibrating tones of the piano were heard preluding the passionate allegro of the aria from "La Traviata": gran Dio morir si giovine.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s