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as in preliminary

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Recent Examples of countdown During his stay from July 7 to 11, the prince will carry out a series of charity engagements, and kick off the one-year countdown to the 2027 Invictus Games. — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 5 July 2026 Cheri Oteri made a surprise apperance as the late Barbrara Walters on CNN's countdown to the America's 250th anniversary. — Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 4 July 2026 The song, according to an announcement put out by the singer’s Parkwood Entertainment, starts a 60-day countdown to her next birthday and the re-issue of B’Day, her groundbreaking second album that was released two decades ago on September 4, 2006. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026 Written in collaboration with Pharrell Williams, The-Dream and Darius Dixon, the Grammy Award-winning artist's new song will start the 60-day countdown to her next birthday and the reissue of B'DAY. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for countdown

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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.

— Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026

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The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
But the issue Americans should be concerned with here really isn’t FIFA, which has entertained other similar overtures before, but rather its own sporting reputation.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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Acuff got off to a much better start after struggling to make shots in his summer league debut on Saturday.

— Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
Belgium added to the lead early in the second half on a major error from goalie Matt Freese, who had given up just one goal in his first three starts.

— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

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