preparations

plural of preparation

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Recent Examples of preparations Those preparations often happen close to kick-off before matches. Andy Naylor, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, Alexander said, his father made new preparations to leave the country. Isabelle Chapman, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026 When Traceability Becomes An Operations Issue With regard to food production, strategic thinking for 2026 and beyond must also include preparations for enhanced traceability. Ihor Yurchenko, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 While that show is still on, CBS LA had its helicopter fly over the beach, where there did not appear to be any sort of preparations for a concert of such scale underway. Laurie Perez, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026 That’s the stage the pop superstar and NFL TE are at right now, and just in time for Kelce’s preparations for the upcoming NFL season to begin in earnest. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 Aug. 2026 The session officially marked the beginning of preparations for a pivotal second season under head coach Willie Simmons. Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026 The football and weight-training facilities are so well-regarded that several teams, including Coach Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide, have fine-tuned their preparations for Rose Bowl and NCAA national championship games there. Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2026 The Gruccis were spending Thanksgiving weekend of 1983 making final preparations for Christmas and New Year’s Eve shows when an explosion levelled their factory in Bellport. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preparations
Noun
  • Four people, including a man serving time for murder, have been arrested and accused of smuggling drugs and other contraband into the Pulaski County jail, a news release from the county sheriff's office says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high levels of N-methylclonazepam, a benzodiazepine that operates similarly to Xanax or Valium.
    Scott Maucione, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Recently, the company partnered with CVS Health to expand access to GLP-1 medications, boosting its direct-to-consumer weight management program.
    Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
  • According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the process involves hormone medications to stimulate egg development, monitoring through bloodwork and ultrasounds and an outpatient egg-retrieval procedure.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The team's doctor administered treatment doses according to height, with a standardized measuring tape against the wall to help determine the dose.
    William McCarthy, NPR, 4 July 2026
  • One study suggested that patients should be prescribed three or four doses, as well as an additional dose in case it’s needed.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

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“Preparations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preparations. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

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