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Recent Examples of lead-in
The week before had also been Inclusion Week at Capri, where students learned about anti-bullying and standing up for others, a perfect lead-in for the walk.
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
The synths return to spectacular effect as a lead-in to one of those guitar leads any fan would recognize as May by the end of the opening flourish based entirely on tone and phrasing.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The clip packages set up by TDS were also rhetorically perfect — never too long, always well set up by Stewart’s ironic lead-in.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
But Meyers’s lead-in is Jimmy Fallon at The Tonight Show, who tends to occupy a more politically anodyne space.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
The synths return to spectacular effect as a lead-in to one of those guitar leads any fan would recognize as May by the end of the opening flourish based entirely on tone and phrasing.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
The clip packages set up by TDS were also rhetorically perfect — never too long, always well set up by Stewart’s ironic lead-in.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
But Meyers’s lead-in is Jimmy Fallon at The Tonight Show, who tends to occupy a more politically anodyne space.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
Noun
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Lower‑demand preliminaries will likely be the most affordable, while high‑profile events—gymnastics finals, swimming finals, track and field, and the opening ceremony—will sit at the top end of the pricing spectrum.—
Paris Wilson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Jan. 2026
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Is it reduced to yet another fill-in-the-blank preliminary to a national title game in some super-duper-they-look-alike stadium?—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Altman resisted any trade overtures at the time.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Instead, at most programs, the National Anthem serves as an overture.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Pentagon worries that an expanding Chinese arsenal could be a prelude to invading Taiwan or an attempt to beat America's missile defenses, Panda said.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2026
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In Puerto Rico, watch parties treated the game as a prelude.—
Martin Silva Rey,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Both men served as a prologue of sorts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement The show also falls prey to a few unfortunate streaming-era trends, from a penultimate flashback episode that delays the payoff of a cliffhanger by filling in backstory of questionable utility, to a scantness of plot that makes the whole short season feel like an overgrown prologue.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor kicked off the ceremony with a brief speech thanking the audience, both in person and those watching the livestream, while providing a preamble that gestured at the ongoing conversations about the role of AI in film.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2026
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But Alfonsi in an on-air preamble and post-script introduced other information and statistics.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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