- past participle of begin.
begun
Example Sentences
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Nineteen Manhattan office buildings have begun conversions so far this year, and another 17 are planned, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Engels, who has made four appearances for Belgium, won back-to-back Scottish Premiership titles with Celtic after arriving from Augsburg in August 2024, having begun his career at Club Brugge.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Instead, some of us had begun calling ourselves “Negroes,” a term more of our choosing, though still not perfect.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
