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
It was so hot on Saturday that a more than three-hour heat delay was imposed in the middle of the Southern Section Division 3 track and field preliminaries at Yorba Linda.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025
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
The instructor, working on the knowledge that his students either had taken it before and flunked it, or had already had it in high school, sluffed over the preliminaries and got right down to translation.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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