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Example sentences for: preparatory

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All samples were precipitated with TCA and resuspended in gel loading buffer preparatory to electrophoresis.
The first and second steps are introductory and preparatory lectures presented in a group.
Travelers on their way to or from Rome will be especially interested in Raphael’s cartoons (preparatory drawings) for his School of Athens fresco in the Vatican.
First: The school must stick to its goal of providing a high-quality preparatory education.
In fact, much of her imaginative writing seems to me a mere preparatory sketch for her real work of genius, which is the self-promoting--but undeniably original--criticism that explicates it.