lead-in

noun

Definition of lead-innext
as in preliminary

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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. — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 But Fear did not get TWD as a lead-in, and instead premiered five months later, airing weekly after that. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 1 July 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 See All Example Sentences for lead-in
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
  1. preliminary
  2. overture
  3. prelude
  4. prologue
  5. preamble
Noun
  • The meet continues Thursday, a day consisting largely of women’s preliminaries, followed by men’s finals Friday and women’s finals Saturday.
    — Mike Wilson, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • 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.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
Definition of preliminary
Noun
  • The musical’s overture gives you a sense of the complexity that’s needed to make seeming simple and straightforward material really soar.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
  • But the issue Americans should be concerned with here really isn’t FIFA, which has entertained other similar overtures before, but rather its own sporting reputation.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of overture
Noun
  • Analysts widely believe Monday’s announcement is a prelude to eventual sales of both Comcast and NBCUniversal, a theory that Comcast rejects.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The current ceasefire is likely a prelude to the next round of war.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of prelude
Noun
  • But the extent to which the past is prologue is uncertain.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • But the recent past need not be prologue.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Definition of prologue
Noun
  • During Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention later that year, Wilson aptly explained the preamble’s significance.
    — Jesse Wegman, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • 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).
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
Definition of preamble

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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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