lead up to something
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› to happen, say, or do in preparation for something: In the three games leading up to the Sugar Bowl, his team yielded 35, 35, and 42 points. I thought you were leading up to a question at the end of that.
(Definition of lead up to something from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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