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is preparatory
adjective
Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative
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But, in the past couple of years, I've reread three novels with one unmistakable sentence to which everything else is preparatory and subordinate.
"We are now two years on since the JCVI recommended this study and, whilst we are pleased to read in the government statement that there is preparatory research that has been commissioned and is under way, we still have no indication of when the full study will commence or be completed by," he said.
This is preparatory to an exhortation to properly exercise both the soul and the body to recover or maintain physical and psychic well being.
SPIDER, which is preparatory to MITICA and will be developed on a shorter time scale, has no constraints coming from ITER CODAC, whereas MITICA includes the ITER neutral beam injector and therefore must be fully compatible with ITER CODAC.
Besides the obvious and complementary differences between (1.1) and our equation, a good reason for studying (1.3) is that the study of its behavior is preparatory to better understanding of more general (neural) network models.
All of this work is preparatory for the creation of the Debt Collective which is preparing the structure needed take on the larger subject of Wall Street manufactured debt.
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They were preparatory sketches for a mural in John Maynard Keynes's rooms in King's College, Cambridge.
Some drawings are preparatory studies for paintings, while others are finished products.
Several of the drawings in the exhibition are preparatory sketches of existing or planned artworks.
Both symposia and gymnasia in different ways mirrored or were preparatory to warfare (see below).
Many of Tuymans' drawings are preparatory works for paintings, or – as a kind of reversal – made after the paintings.
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