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

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

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

Much of the Wall Street community sees the split as likely a prelude to another round of industry consolidation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

A herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude!

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

This was followed by four elusive Scriabin miniature preludes, Opus 22, and Scriabin’s harmonic flight-of-fancy Opus 28 Fantasie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

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

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

The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

“Wheel-y-will-y-will-y-il!” preluded again the little brown hermit-lover, with the rufous tail and ruffled, 110 speckled breast, from an evergreen twig of the low pine-scrub.

From Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl by Isabel Katherine Hornibrook

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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 Edgar Saltus

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