prelude
Example Sentences
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Rate checks are considered a prelude to actual intervention and involve central banks contacting commercial lenders to get price quotes for currency trades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
It was a striking prelude to "Body to Body", the album's first full track, interwoven with Korea's most iconic folk song and the album's namesake, Arirang.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
The ceremony is a prelude to the annual L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
A year later he won the World Cup crystal globe in the slalom as a prelude to his split with the Norwegian set-up.
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
The hilarious gaiety changed swiftly at the closing bars, and the drummer rattled his sticks in the inevitable prelude to God Save the King.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing prelude
"Two Kinds" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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"Total Loss Weekend" by Don Delillo
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