led up; leading up; leads up
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Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
What makes all this so engaging is the knowledge that eventually, one side or the other will slip up and people will get hurt, and the confidence that Nemesis’s inner world is so vibrant that the fallout will just be as compelling as the lead-up.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 May 2026
Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
Setting the bar even higher, Whitt aims for similar gains leading up to summer practices.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
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Noun
In the lead-up to the suspension, IRAP had more than two hundred and fifty clients in Jordan.
—Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
What makes all this so engaging is the knowledge that eventually, one side or the other will slip up and people will get hurt, and the confidence that Nemesis’s inner world is so vibrant that the fallout will just be as compelling as the lead-up.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 May 2026
Verb
Farther north in Lake County, Hawthorn had faced the loss of several major tenants in the years leading up to the pandemic.
—Audrey Pachuta, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026
Setting the bar even higher, Whitt aims for similar gains leading up to summer practices.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026
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“Lead-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lead-up. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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lead up
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: to make a gradual approach to a topic
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