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Recent Examples of lead-in
Based on this weak field, his lead-in form and resume, Kim's odds should be lower than +3000.
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Geoff Clark Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
And so your lead-in is the program that's on before you, and 60 Minutes for most of the season has the NFL right before 60 Minutes.
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Zulekha Nathoo,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
In 25-54s, the average was 172,000, up 153% on the previous season and 47% above its lead-in.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
Some of these will also present great lead-in opportunities.
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Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Geoff Clark Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
And so your lead-in is the program that's on before you, and 60 Minutes for most of the season has the NFL right before 60 Minutes.
—
Zulekha Nathoo,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
In 25-54s, the average was 172,000, up 153% on the previous season and 47% above its lead-in.
—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
Some of these will also present great lead-in opportunities.
—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
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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.
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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.
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The tension is playing out in public as leaders including Marco Rubio fight back against extremism while others such as JD Vance make overtures to the fringe.
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Despite the fact that American leaders paid scant attention to his initial overture, Sultan Muhammad pursued the relationship further.
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Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.
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The current ceasefire is likely a prelude to the next round of war.
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But the extent to which the past is prologue is uncertain.
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But the recent past need not be prologue.
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During Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention later that year, Wilson aptly explained the preamble’s significance.
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We are thrown into the story without preamble, after a government shadow agency called WARDEX, headed by Firth’s Noah Scanlon, has kidnapped Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson) as a means of getting to her slippery boyfriend Daniel Kellner (O’Connor).
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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