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Recent Examples of lead-in
And, the success is not just due to its promising lead-in from the very popular Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, either.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
But Meyers’s lead-in is Jimmy Fallon at The Tonight Show, who tends to occupy a more politically anodyne space.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
IndyCar Photo One of the largest sporting events on Earth will serve as the lead-in for FOX’s telecast of the IndyCar race at Nashville Superspeedway on July 19.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 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
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
But Meyers’s lead-in is Jimmy Fallon at The Tonight Show, who tends to occupy a more politically anodyne space.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
IndyCar Photo One of the largest sporting events on Earth will serve as the lead-in for FOX’s telecast of the IndyCar race at Nashville Superspeedway on July 19.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
Noun
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Is it reduced to yet another fill-in-the-blank preliminary to a national title game in some super-duper-they-look-alike stadium?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2026
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Two weeks after Miss Jamaica, Dr. Gabrielle Henry, suffered a shocking fall during the Miss Universe preliminaries in Bangkok, the organization is offering an update on her condition.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Despite his positive words about the regime, which is practically unchanged save Maduro’s absence, in the last few days Trump has made overtures to María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader who was barred from running in Venezuela’s 2024 general election.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
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The letter, Mandal said, was a bold overture, given that the city attorney and other key players in the department’s oversight were not consulted beforehand.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And so, as a prelude to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians have searched for blowups (also called singularities) in an assortment of simplified fluid equations, such as those that operate in only one dimension.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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Previous rounds of popular unrest have also seen the government shut down communications, usually as a prelude to an all-out crackdown.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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After a prologue suggesting that creepy things were happening at a government lab, the pilot was mostly introducing viewers to a group of nerdy friends who would soon be joined by a mysterious telekinetic girl with short hair in Hawkins, Indiana, circa 1983.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Jan. 2026
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The novel is divided into three parts, the first of which is an extended prologue recounting Catt’s upbringing in a small blue-collar town in Connecticut.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The rest were preambles or dead ends.—
Dan Turello,
New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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