preliminaries
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Dispense with all preliminaries and give the Oscar to Ms. Coon right now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Nine university students entered the preliminaries this year, wrestling bulls weighing hundreds of kilograms and sporting hard, stubby horns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
The Friars won the state 4x100 title in 40.27 last spring without their superstar from Compton and with him were two-hundredths off that in posting the fastest time in Friday’s preliminaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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
The worry came from what would happen after the preliminaries.
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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