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Recent Examples of lead-in
Doc’s lead-in, Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX airs at 8 pm with episodes leading up to The Big Game set in New Orleans.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
Chamberlin will return for a sixth consecutive year to executive produce ABC’s The Oscars Red Carpet Show, the official live lead-in to the Oscars broadcast.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
His new album, for which this EP is the lead-in, would hearken to the past.
—Molly Lambert, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
Did that seem too abrupt to just drop at the top of a new paragraph with absolutely zero lead-in?
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
Chamberlin will return for a sixth consecutive year to executive produce ABC’s The Oscars Red Carpet Show, the official live lead-in to the Oscars broadcast.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
His new album, for which this EP is the lead-in, would hearken to the past.
—Molly Lambert, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
Did that seem too abrupt to just drop at the top of a new paragraph with absolutely zero lead-in?
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
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The Southern Section held its track and field preliminaries at four sites around Southern California on Saturday, and sophomore Brian Bonner of Valencia High continued his rise to prominence.Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2024
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In 1988: Greg Louganis won the gold medal in the 3-meter springboard at the Seoul Olympics one day after hitting his head on the diving board during the preliminaries.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 21 Sep. 2024
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Hamas made some overtures to Christians, such as having senior officials publicly welcome the Christian holidays.Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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The mayor, who has voiced support for stricter enforcement against undocumented immigrants accused of crimes, has drawn ire from Democratic leaders for his overtures to Trump.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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If past is prelude, Trump’s resulting approach will likely be highly disruptive—especially since some of his goals are mutually incompatible.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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The altcoin rally observed since November appears to be a prelude to a bigger altcoin season in 2025.Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The script, co-written by Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes, scraps Whitehead’s opening prologue about the wretched cemetery to instead emphasize that this will be a bittersweet celebration of life.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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The audience at the King’s Company production of Othello on December 8, 1660, heard an unusual prologue before the play began.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2024
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An example in the preamble assumes the foreign corporation stock received is subsequently transferred in a transaction described in section 351(a) to another foreign corporation in exchange for its stock (or is exchanged under section 354 for stock in another foreign corporation).Carrie Brandon Elliot, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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So with all that as a preamble, Sabreena, has the national team lived up to your expectations?Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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