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Recent Examples of lead-in
Not having a big player like ABC as your affiliate could put them at a disadvantage, considering the newscasts are lead-ins for popular network programming like David Muir at 6:30 p.m. and Jimmy Kimmel at 11:30 p.m.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
Particularly alarming for Suits LA was a loss of 57 percent in viewers from the lead-in, nature documentary series The Americas (3.65 million at 8 p.m. ET), and a drop in the 9:30 p.m. ET half-hour of 23 percent (1.79 to 1.38 million).
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
This collaboration of two famous anime studios, Sunrise (Mobile Suit Gundam) and Khara (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla), is a lead-in film to a new TV series which will air later this spring.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
Next in line is the Sixers-Celtics lead-in (5.16 million), followed by Spurs-Knicks in the Knickerbockers’ customary noon E.T. slot (4.91 million).
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2025
Particularly alarming for Suits LA was a loss of 57 percent in viewers from the lead-in, nature documentary series The Americas (3.65 million at 8 p.m. ET), and a drop in the 9:30 p.m. ET half-hour of 23 percent (1.79 to 1.38 million).
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
This collaboration of two famous anime studios, Sunrise (Mobile Suit Gundam) and Khara (Evangelion, Shin Godzilla), is a lead-in film to a new TV series which will air later this spring.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
Next in line is the Sixers-Celtics lead-in (5.16 million), followed by Spurs-Knicks in the Knickerbockers’ customary noon E.T. slot (4.91 million).
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lead-in
Noun
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While the diving kicked off Thursday, the swimming gets underway with preliminaries on Friday, with the finals for both swimming and diving slated for Saturday.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
6 Mar. 2025
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Her six-game outburst in the state preliminaries screamed of consistency, with no score lower than 217 and none higher than 269.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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At least one company seems to have made overtures to parents via a pediatrics organization: Vicks ZzzQuil, a popular line of children’s melatonin products, sponsored a 2020 webinar on sleep hosted by the American Academy of Pediatrics.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Amid uncertainty around the fate of the TikTok ban, Meta is one of the major social media platforms making overtures to creators.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Mar. 2025
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Image Lacking indoor plumbing, the family basked in this sauna as a prelude to bathing in the cold lake.—
Julie Lasky,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Still, the comp’s opening stretch is really just a prelude to arguably the most momentous drummer swap in rock history: the arrival of Peart in August 1974.—
Hank Shteamer,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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If past is prologue, those folks will be paying their fair share somewhere else.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
31 Mar. 2025
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Read on for an exclusive excerpt from the prologue of The Secret Book Society. London, England June 1895 Clara Chambers, the Countess of Duxbury, entered her drawing room and considered the urchin who’d demanded to be seen at once.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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The preamble notes that the IRS and Treasury considered necessary alternatives to the final rules.—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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From the front, the striking white stucco exterior walls, pitched roof lines, fanciful turret and dramatic circular driveway — not to mention tulip trees — are just a preamble to the contemporary elegance found inside.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Lead-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lead-in. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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