lead-in

noun

Definition of lead-innext
as in preliminary

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Recent Examples of lead-in Based on this weak field, his lead-in form and resume, Kim's odds should be lower than +3000. — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 And so your lead-in is the program that's on before you, and 60 Minutes for most of the season has the NFL right before 60 Minutes. — Zulekha Nathoo, USA Today, 8 June 2026 In 25-54s, the average was 172,000, up 153% on the previous season and 47% above its lead-in. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 13 May 2026 Some of these will also present great lead-in opportunities. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
  1. preliminary
  2. overture
  3. prelude
  4. prologue
  5. preamble
Noun
  • But all of that was just the preliminaries for Grady Emerson.
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of preliminary
Noun
  • The Phillies, time and time again, have declined those overtures.
    — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 28 July 2026
  • North Korea has remained hostile to President Lee Jae Myung’s overtures despite his efforts to ease tensions, including suspending anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts and taking steps to curb the launch of propaganda leaflets by activists.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 23 July 2026
Definition of overture
Noun
  • Marvel services fans with a bevy of delightful Easter eggs, but the film works better as an extended prelude to Endgame than as its own story.
    — EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As much as Baker tried to keep his focus on Kent, however, many kept telling him that this visit was a prelude to his induction next summer.
    — Jose de Jesus Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
Definition of prelude
Noun
  • Unfortunately, a prologue has already alerted us to the fact that a wild animal being trafficked has escaped its cage and vehicle, fleeing into the same woods Irina’s chauffeur now drives through.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2026
  • The film opens with a prologue, depicting a version of the Igbo Landing story, in which a group of African people in 19th-century North Carolina drown themselves rather than submit to slavery.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 July 2026
Definition of prologue
Noun
  • During Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention later that year, Wilson aptly explained the preamble’s significance.
    — Jesse Wegman, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • We are thrown into the story without preamble, after a government shadow agency called WARDEX, headed by Firth’s Noah Scanlon, has kidnapped Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson) as a means of getting to her slippery boyfriend Daniel Kellner (O’Connor).
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
Definition of preamble

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