prologue

If the recent terms are a prologue, the coming term is bleak.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

“It’s Florida, Man,” HBO Max “What you’re about to see may be dangerous, illegal, unethical, petty, misguided, immoral and most definitely stupid,” a prologue warns at the top of each episode.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026

"Persistently high prices are a burden for the American people, but the recent past need not be prologue," he said after the meeting at which he also wanted wide-ranging reforms at the bank.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

But those performances were mere prologue to what Lionel Messi produced in Kansas City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

Widget pauses before he starts, letting the tent and the tree settle into silent prologue while Poppet waits patiently.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

In the show’s second season, episode prologues that tell characters’ back stories function as short films of their own, with distinct tones and time frames.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022

Similar notes often appear in the prologues of scientific innovation or inventor profiles, interestingly enough.

From Salon ● May 15, 2019

Forewords, prefaces and afterwords rank squarely among literature’s stepchildren — above marginalia and non-David Foster Wallace footnotes perhaps but below prologues and postscripts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2019

Best extras: Let’s skip the production featurettes for a minute and focus on the three included, though previously released to the Internet, short films that act as prologues for the main event.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 17, 2018

More than twenty of these books he had translated himself, and to others he contributed interesting prologues or epilogues.

From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

This was one of three events that probably clouded the sunlit hours of the early comedies and prologued the dark vision of the great tragedies.

From Time Magazine Archive

"If I fail," and Warren was dumbfounded, even after the unreal scenes which had prologued this situation.

From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard

No wonder he prologued his piping after the following dismal fashion:—   "In dreary verse my rhymes I make,   Bewailing whilst such theme I take."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various