prelude

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Keurig Dr Pepper struck a deal to buy Peet’s Coffee owner JDE Peet’s for $18 billion last year, a prelude to spinning off its coffee brands into a separate public company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

As a prelude Joe and his freshman crewmates took on the varsity crew in a football game of their own and were unceremoniously crushed by the older boys.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

The novenario meals were preludes to the funeral reception, held at Torres Banquet Hall near St. Alphonsus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

In an interview, Darius said that his father had a shelf full of music theory books, and kept the scores of Bach and Shostakovich preludes and fugues next to his piano for reference.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 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

The book which followed L'Éducation had been preluded, twenty years earlier, by some fragments in L'Artiste, a periodical edited by Gautier.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

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

Sometimes Kirkwood without preluding, would utter a line for Phil to cap; they even composed sonnets in this antiphonal fashion and pronounced them superior to the average magazine product.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson

To the northward advanced, in serried columns of black, the beetling clouds that were turning the day into night, the distant booming of aërial artillery thundering forth the preluding cannonade of the charge.

From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis

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