Thesaurus results for LEAD-IN

lead-in

noun

Definition of lead-in

as in preliminary

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Recent Examples of lead-in The negative spin is that the game lost nearly half the viewers from the massive Clark lead-in audience. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 The entire weekend is essentially a lead-in to the company’s Saturday Hall H presentation, during which Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige routinely drops news about what to expect from the MCU in the coming years. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 30 July 2026 That movie should have served as a decent lead-in, even introducing Kara at the end, but this is miles away from that film's $618 million. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 July 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 See All Example Sentences for lead-in

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Noun

This year’s Miss World competition recently made headlines during the preliminaries when Ugandan delegate Elle Muhoza made a powerful fashion statement.

— Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
But all of that was just the preliminaries for Grady Emerson.

— John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026

Definition of preliminary

Noun

And an overture from an ABC exec (Jessica Hecht) to Andie to jump ship represents another kind of unsettling grooming.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Tottenham’s Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray, Stuttgart’s Angelo Stiller, Brighton’s Carlos Belaba, Botafogo’s Danilo and Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Larsson were among them, while overtures were made regarding Victor Froholdt’s availability at Porto.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of overture

Noun

Zach Benson’s playoff performance looked like a prelude to a breakout.

— Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
In 1996, when the first three novels were reprinted again, Kennedy appended a prelude that reads like an account of the cycle’s evolution—except that the author of these books is identified as Billy Phelan’s nephew Daniel Quinn.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of prelude

Noun

In fact, the historical episodes depicted in the prologue — historical episodes that occurred in 1956 — remain unpunished to this day.

— Roberto Prieto, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
The premise couldn’t be simpler, though Wollner’s incredible prologue — a careful arrangement of low-event long takes that emphasize how people move through spaces in time — trains our eyes to privilege texture over incident.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of prologue

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