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The move is seen as a prelude to a declaration of war.prelude = something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow
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a prelude to dictatorship
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the Prelude to Act 1 of La Traviata
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Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
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My favorite song by Duke Ellington's is Prelude to a Kiss.
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Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come. (source)
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The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking. (source)prelude = something to prepare for what follows
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Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.† (source)
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"Goodness gracious!" aunt Pullet exclaimed, after preluding by an inarticulate scream; "keep her at the door, Sally!† (source)
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On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Thus in one neighborhood in which they had lived, when he was but a child of seven, his father, having always preluded every conversation with "Praise the Lord," he heard boys call "Here comes old Praise-the-Lord Griffiths."† (source)
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And it is clear then that everything so far has been a prelude.† (source)
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But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.† (source)
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Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.† (source)
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Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.† (source)
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Where was the romantic prelude, with the young man kneeling at my feet?† (source)
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