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Definition of warm (up)

as in to provide

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a performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event the couple's initial exchange of insults proved to be only a warm-up for their booze-fueled fight later that night

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Noun

United’s players are getting to grips with their new tasks and subplots for the coming weeks of warm-up matches are forming. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 25 July 2026 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 This tournament draws golf's elite from both PGA and LIV tours, serving as a crucial final warm-up for The Open Championship. — Jeff Hartman, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Wimbledon argues that the players’ representatives underestimate the costs of running tournaments and staging important warm-up events. — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for warm (up)

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Neeru decided to go back to school at age 50 and earned another master’s degree, from Stanford Graduate School of Education, before launching CK-12 Foundation, a non-profit that provides free and customizable digital textbooks for children.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Along with affordable homes, Lupo said, the best cities for first-time buyers also provide lower crime rates, good schools and a lower overall cost of living.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of provide

Noun

There was a Tom Cruise prelude, and then a halftime show that stretched a typically 15-minute interval past 27 minutes.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
These Space Act Agreements were intended as a prelude to a second phase of the program, which would award substantially more funding to one or two more companies to proceed into the construction and launch of their space stations.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 10 July 2026

Definition of prelude

Verb

The aggregate spending increase being committed across these geographies represents a multi-year demand cycle for defense contractors, aerospace suppliers, cybersecurity providers, and the electronics companies that supply military applications.

— Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
American companies will have priority access to supply nuclear reactors and fuel to the Saudi nuclear energy program, according to an administration memo about the agreement seen by NPR.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 July 2026

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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.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026

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Searchers recently found the wreckage of the DC-4 by using an autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with high-resolution sonar to locate the fuselage and separated tail in nearly 2,000 feet of water.

— Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
The recent back-to-back shootings have raised questions about why the agents were not wearing body cameras despite a promise by federal authorities to equip officers nationwide with the technology.

— Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 22 July 2026

Definition of equip

Verb

Telemachus’ lone contribution is killing Melanthius, the traitorous Ithacan farmhand, thus preventing him from continuing to arm the suitors.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
SoftBank and its data center arm, SB Energy, are building it on a site where a giant uranium enrichment facility once stood, helping arm American nuclear bombs.

— Scott Cohn, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of arm

Verb

Its inhabitants remain largely indifferent to the independence movement; village elders reason that freedom will benefit the educated while cultivators will merely exchange one set of masters for another.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Area communities, which receive a share of the tourism revenues, have been educated about the importance of conservation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026

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