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beginning

[bih-gin-ing] / bɪˈgɪn ɪŋ /




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A spokesman said: "We are committed to ensuring everyone beginning their military career receives the highest standards of training, welfare and support in a safe and professional environment."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

For spring 2027, you created this fantastical garden populated by insects, beginning with a chrysalis and ending with the emergence of butterflies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

I later ended up posted at a Warner Brothers office overseas where I got to work on the beginning of that era of albums.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

India, the world's third-largest buyer of oil, normally sources about half of its crude through the Strait of Hormuz, which has been effectively closed since the beginning of the Middle East war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The sun’s frail light no longer broke the canopy, and in the deepening shadows, the faint glow of the four realms was beginning to appear.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Those bubbles could expand away from one another while new regions undergo their own Big Bang-like beginnings.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

I had two sourdough heels, two eggs and some cream, which meant I had the beginnings of either a sweet or savory strata.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Every year on Mexican Independence Day, the paper celebrates its humble beginnings when Lozano Sr. launched the paper from a modest office in downtown Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The “grandfatherly” Uncle Dave became a fixture of the Grand Ole Opry, his run there extending from its beginnings in the mid-1920s up to shortly before his death in 1952.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

I looked at the side of his face: petulant, irritable, glasses low on the tip of his sharp little nose and the beginnings of jowls at his jawline.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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