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lead-ins

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plural of lead-in

as in preliminaries

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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.

— Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
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.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026

Definition of preliminaries

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PayPal has been working with investment banks on takeover and activist defense for the last few months and had already shrugged off initial overtures from Stripe, Semafor reported earlier this year.

— Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
But the issue Americans should be concerned with here really isn’t FIFA, which has entertained other similar overtures before, but rather its own sporting reputation.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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As Summit players had passed through the southeast gate and into warm-ups, the crowd pushed closer to the barriers.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 July 2026
The league will take another reading about an hour before pre-game warm-ups to determine if any further steps are needed, according to a league spokesperson.

— Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 15 July 2026

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