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Recent Examples of lead-in
Some of these will also present great lead-in opportunities.
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Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
And in Madrid, that philosophy hits different with 1,000 ranking points on the line, significant prize money at stake and the tournament serving as a key lead-in to the French Open.
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Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
The Ardennes classics that follow feel more like the lead-in to the Giro d’Italia.
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Jessica Hopkins,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
As a lead-in to Tuesday’s CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal first leg at BMO Stadium versus Mexican power Cruz Azul, the performance was everything LAFC could have hoped for.
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Josh Gross,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
And in Madrid, that philosophy hits different with 1,000 ranking points on the line, significant prize money at stake and the tournament serving as a key lead-in to the French Open.
—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
The Ardennes classics that follow feel more like the lead-in to the Giro d’Italia.
—
Jessica Hopkins,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
As a lead-in to Tuesday’s CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal first leg at BMO Stadium versus Mexican power Cruz Azul, the performance was everything LAFC could have hoped for.
—
Josh Gross,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
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The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.
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Hernandez, now a Southern Section champion again, along with all the other winners will move onto the CIF preliminaries next Saturday to face the rest of the state's top female jumpers, with a chance to get back to the state finals.
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Despite the fact that American leaders paid scant attention to his initial overture, Sultan Muhammad pursued the relationship further.
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Antonio, who has remained on good terms with Rochelle (and lives near the Hinkles in South Florida), supported Alex’s passion for the beautiful game while fending off overtures from football coaches.
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The elegant, minimalistic, black-wooden cabinet box containing 12 cigars is but a prelude to this, the mildest cigar sporting the distinctive Davidoff black band.
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This was the second of five group-stage games to be held here, a collective prelude to the July 1 main event (Round of 32).
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But the recent past need not be prologue.
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This Cannes Directors’ Fortnight prizewinner sets out its pitch-black-comic stall early with a prologue in which, after a brief contretemps, local man Raoul Brun (Jean-Louis Coulloc’h) blows his supercilious neighbor’s head off with a shotgun and then disappears.
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During Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention later that year, Wilson aptly explained the preamble’s significance.
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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).
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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