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Recent Examples of lead-in
The 2024 edition also ran on Sunday, with the benefit of an NFL lead-in.
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
The week before had also been Inclusion Week at Capri, where students learned about anti-bullying and standing up for others, a perfect lead-in for the walk.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
The synths return to spectacular effect as a lead-in to one of those guitar leads any fan would recognize as May by the end of the opening flourish based entirely on tone and phrasing.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The clip packages set up by TDS were also rhetorically perfect — never too long, always well set up by Stewart’s ironic lead-in.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
The week before had also been Inclusion Week at Capri, where students learned about anti-bullying and standing up for others, a perfect lead-in for the walk.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
The synths return to spectacular effect as a lead-in to one of those guitar leads any fan would recognize as May by the end of the opening flourish based entirely on tone and phrasing.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The clip packages set up by TDS were also rhetorically perfect — never too long, always well set up by Stewart’s ironic lead-in.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
Noun
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Switzerland crushed Germany in the men’s curling preliminaries, keeping a consistent lead before ending the game with a score of 8-4.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
17 Feb. 2026
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Lower‑demand preliminaries will likely be the most affordable, while high‑profile events—gymnastics finals, swimming finals, track and field, and the opening ceremony—will sit at the top end of the pricing spectrum.—
Paris Wilson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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In the popular overture, elicitation of tumult concludes, with startling exhilaration, in the kind of grand Beethovenian triumph that never fails to excite.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Epstein made similar overtures to Hollywood titans.—
Chris Quintana,
USA Today,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This self-mocking move may be just the prelude to a fuller jeans-guy renaissance, Heffernan suggested.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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Experts view these displays as a prelude to deploying robots in factories and logistics centers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 17 at USC’s Bovard Auditorium, a prologue to the 31st annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, taking place April 18-19.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Then our couple from the prologue, Billie (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) and Albert (William Hope) pull up to the trading post, looking for a map.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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In addition, this rule finalizes some of the amendments that were proposed on January 16, 2025, to fix incorrect regulatory text citations as well as clarify and add provisions in the regulatory text to match the language included in the preamble.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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At some point over the last month, the NHL season started to feel more like a preamble to the 2026 Winter Games than anything else.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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