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Recent Examples of lead-inThe new episodes of the flagship Law & Order will also debut on Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. ET, serving as the lead-in to SVU.—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Of course, the return on your primetime investment depends on whether or not Fox’s cartoon juggernaut—now entering its 37th season, The Simpsons passed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted series seven years ago—was the beneficiary of a big NFL lead-in.—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 Aug. 2025 With a lead-in from The O.C. and a cast including future stars Dave Annable and Chyler Leigh, it was poised to be one of the 2005–06 TV season's greatest mysteries.—James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Of course, the lead-in shows were getting 30 and 40 million, which was a big part of it.—Clayton Davis, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lead-in
In 1988: Greg Louganis won the gold medal in the 3-meter springboard at the Seoul Olympics one day after hitting his head on the diving board during the preliminaries.
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Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Galvin’s spokesperson said the issue was not related with the city’s administration of the preliminary.
Christmas Eve 1776 found Temple at Versailles, the ideal messenger for a sensitive, exploratory overture to the French minister of foreign affairs.
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Stacy Schiff,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
But with a combative Trump questioning the very purpose of the UN at his speech before the General Assembly, Beijing has an international audience that may be more receptive to its overtures.
Indiscriminate weapons The past is prologue for space, suggests Bruce McClintock, lead of the RAND Space Enterprise Initiative and a senior policy researcher for the organization, and a professor at the RAND School of Public Policy.
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Leonard David,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
If past is prologue, the longer a shutdown drags on, the more pain Americans will start to feel.
Touches five and six are merely the cajoling preamble to the pièce de résistance, aka touch seven, a piercing through ball which splits defender Goncalo Inacio and backtracking forward Geny Catamo like a warm bread knife through a ciabatta roll straight out of Mama’s oven.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
His victory in November was widely seen as a preamble to deregulation, with broadcasters set to benefit.
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