Overtures
Both words in one sentence
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Annie was pals with a lot of them prior to their falling-out when they didn't show up to collect her mother's spirit, and the owl-headed Muut makes overtures to try to mend their relationship.
Source: Don't Fear the Reaper - In fact, whenever opera singers like the Three Tenors try to bring opera back to the common people they are criticized for being "commercial" and relying too much on the well known overtures, choruses and arias that everybody knows.
Source: Seinfeld Is Unfunny / Music - Alternatively, she's a decent person who's running the kingdom as best she can, but her ancestors (or immediate predecessors) have oppressed the other populations for so long that it doesn't matter what diplomatic overtures she'd try to make, they'll still come after her.
Source: WMG / Super Mario Bros.
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