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Recent Examples of lead-in
In some markets, Hollywood Squares will also serve as the lead-in to Barrymore’s daytime talk show.
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Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
That lead-in suggested that Chappelle might spend the rest of his set revisiting familiar comedic territory.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
First overall was lead-in All in the Family (with a 30.2 household rating).
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Watch on Deadline The Season 3 premiere of Will Trent served as a nice lead-in with 5.9M viewers tuning in same-day.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
That lead-in suggested that Chappelle might spend the rest of his set revisiting familiar comedic territory.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
First overall was lead-in All in the Family (with a 30.2 household rating).
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Watch on Deadline The Season 3 premiere of Will Trent served as a nice lead-in with 5.9M viewers tuning in same-day.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
Noun
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And just by being around his Team Canada teammates, Crosby is doing what Iginla and others did for him back in 2010, when Canada lost to the U.S. in the preliminaries and beat it in the gold medal game.—
Arpon Basu,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Sophomore Charlie Cutts was the only Saber to make the finals (top eight) in an individual event from the preliminaries Feb. 21.—
Tom Schardin,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren, the film was a huge spectacle, running more than three hours with an overture and intermission and costing $6 million to make.—
Rhett Bartlett,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Italy's second-largest lender posted fourth-quarter net profit that beat expectations amid market focus on the bank's M&A overtures.—
Ganesh Rao,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on the same day that Ukraine would have to concede Crimea, an area of Ukraine that was seized by Russia in 2014 in a prelude to the current conflict, and its aspirations to NATO membership in order to reach a peace agreement.—
James Powel,
USA TODAY,
18 Feb. 2025
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The new ongoing series will launch with a 10-page prelude by Slott and Albuquerque in DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition No. 1 on May 3 as part of DC’s Free Comic Book Day programming.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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Following the prologue in Syria, Grant’s script jumps between three different time periods, with the 1943 POW scenes providing the spine.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is tough for beginners, especially given that Henry is left with no armor or weapons to defend himself with after the prologue.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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There are staff who are deployed on disaster and humanitarian responses around the world on behalf of the U.S. government, who tonight -- in the last night with no preamble, no warning and no communication -- were kicked off their email, kicked off their U.S. government computer systems.—
Anna Katharine Ping,
ABC News,
3 Feb. 2025
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His show jumped right into the comedy, with no glitzy preamble.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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