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 series will serve as a nice lead-in for Season 2 of The Paper, which debuts September 9. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 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 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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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

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The beginning of Between Worlds functions as a kind of prelude, offering a straightforward primer on Said.

— Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026
People may be wondering if the nor’easter flooding is a prelude for what to expect as a strong El Niño continues to build this winter and as sea level rises in the future.

— Brian Tang, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of prelude

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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

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