- plural of preliminary.
preliminaries
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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She was one of two runners from the school to qualify for the CIF Southern Section Division I preliminaries.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Earlier, during the preliminaries, someone had led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance—first to the American flag, then to the state of Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Aside from the bartender, there was only one person actually braving the record-breaking 110-degree heat on the roof and watching UFC preliminaries on the wall-mounted TV: a gregarious, stocky, bespectacled older man named Mike.
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
Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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