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preliminary

noun as in introductory event; beginning

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Under its president, the writer Amin Maalouf, the dictionary committee meets every Thursday morning and after discussion gives its ruling on definitions that have been drawn up in preliminary form by outside experts.

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His trial is set to be heard at the Old Bailey and a preliminary hearing is listed to take place on 14 March 2025.

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There will be three fights on the preliminary card starting at 2:30 p.m. and four more fights on the main card starting at 5 p.m., with Paul vs.

Preliminary estimates for this academic year indicate campuses enrolled an additional 3,000 students, boosting the total number of California undergraduates to more than 206,000, the most in UC history.

As Philip Bump of the Washington Post points out in this preliminary analysis:

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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