Introductory
Introductory adjective - Coming before the main part or item usually to introduce or prepare for what follows.
Pilot and introductory are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pilot" instead an adjective "Introductory".
Nearby Word: introduction
Pilot
Pilot adjective - Made or done as an experiment.
Introductory and pilot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Introductory" instead an adjective "Pilot".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Murder-Suicide: The pilot of the introductory story crashes the plane on an elderly couple's house, killing himself, all the people on the plane and the aforementioned couple which are his parents.
Source: Film / Wild Tales - Occasionally, though, a secondary character can't quite get shoehorned into the introductory story and just doesn't exist in the pilot.
Source: Second Episode Introduction - The programme creators made the perhaps unusual decision not to refilm or rewrite the pilot or write a new introductory story for the series itself, but to treat it as canon.
Source: Welcome Episode
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Pilot and Introductory. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/introductory/pilot
Introductory & Pilot. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/introductory/pilot>.
Pilot or Introductory. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/introductory/pilot.
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