preliminaries
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Renoir stopped making preparatory studies between 1865 and 1875 when, like his Impressionist colleagues Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro, he worked directly from the motif, without preliminaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Last week he ran a personal best of 15:03 at the preliminaries, so he put together back-to-back weeks reaching peak form.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2024
As the preliminaries drew to a close, Mike’s friends gradually started coming upstairs to join him.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2024
After a successful debut at Tokyo 2020, the skateboarding got under way in Paris with Britons Sky Brown and Lola Tambling competing in the women's park preliminaries.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2024
In the 1930s rowing was the second most popular Olympic event—after track and field— and in the preliminaries Germany had shown every sign of being highly competitive, if not dominant, in this year’s medal round.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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