Advance and Prologue

Advance

Advance noun - Forward movement in time or place.

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Prologue and advance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prologue" instead a noun "Advance".

Prologue noun - A performance, activity, or event that precedes and sets the stage for the main event.

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Advance and prologue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advance" instead a noun "Prologue".

Nearby Word: prolog

short	short advance	short prologue
alien	alien advance	alien prologue
original	original advance	original prologue
small	small advance	small prologue
Other adjectives: real, great, little, new, past, over-the-top.

The prologue of the story mentions that the Race were going to invade during World War II, however an improvement to their killercraft took 70 years to install and by the time they were actually ready to invade, they had inadvertently given Humanity more time to advance.

Source: Fan Fic / Worldwar: War of Equals
Happens to Lady Lexis in Super Metroid as she immediately forgets to manually advance the prologue text and again when she doesn't realize that doors need to be shot to be opened.

Source: Lets Play / SuperLPHeroes
Xenoblade Chronicles's Action Prologue is the Battle of Sword Valley, which was the last battle of the Mechon invasion of Bionis and where Dunban became a legend throughout the land for singlehandedly turning back the enemy advance.

Source: Great Offscreen War aka: The Great Offscreen War

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