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Six example sentences with preliminary, each labelled with its topic.
The preliminary run used ten samples; the full study that followed a year later used four thousand.
Science
A preliminary hearing decides only whether there is enough to proceed; the real trial comes months afterwards.
Law
The preliminary sketches were charcoal on tracing paper, three weeks of them, before a single measured drawing existed.
Architecture
The preliminary rounds are played in a school gym, and the winners move on to the arena for the finals next week.
Basketball
The preliminary scan showed nothing alarming, but the doctor ordered the full set of tests before saying so aloud.
Medicine
The investor sent a preliminary term sheet on Friday, two pages that would swell to forty once the lawyers were involved.
Startups
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