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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mere prelude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is just an introduction or a small part of a larger event or situation.
Example: "The first chapter of the book serves as a mere prelude to the complex story that unfolds later."
Alternatives: "just an introduction" or "only a beginning".
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But this is a mere prelude.
But all that was a mere prelude.
Many conservatives interviewed in Louisville seemed to see 2014 as a mere prelude to something bigger.
Those seasons now seem a mere prelude to remarkable turns he took after them.
This is the really crazy part, though: that was a mere prelude to tonight.
Still, as flops go, Interstellar was a mere prelude to McConaughey's dreadful 2016.
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His work for the administration was mere prelude for a career worthy of a tropical Renaissance man: documentary filmmaker, educational television executive, illustrator and classical composer.
But such internal debates may be mere prelude to a bigger battle, one certain to test the mettle of the new corps of privacy officers.
For the Hispanic immigrants who survive a crash, the physical trauma is mere prelude.
But that's mere prelude.
All of this is mere prelude, of course, before the N.F.L. takes over the world again.
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