begun
Example Sentences
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The Antonine Plague, perhaps a form of smallpox, had begun to ravage the empire, as it would for more than a decade.
China has begun choking off exports of rare earths and rare-earth magnets to Japan, a potential blow to Japanese companies that use them to produce components for global chip makers, car companies and defense firms.
I wanted to ask him if he’d sign this book, which had now begun to write its own mythology as it sat sentinel over his other signed books on the shelf behind me.
From Los Angeles Times
Since Nazarbayev stood down as president in 2019, Kazakhstan's new government has begun pursuing a legal case in Switzerland to try to recover millions from individuals and companies it accuses of corruption.
From BBC
“But we must not view this settlement as an ending. We have only just begun to see the harm that AI will cause to children if it remains unregulated.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
