from the word go

ADJECTIVE

throughout

Synonyms

WEAK

all over all the time all through around at full length completely during every bit everyplace everywhere far and near far and wide for the duration from beginning to end from end to end from one end to the other from start to finish from the start high and low in all respects in every place in everything inside and out on all accounts over overall right through round the whole time through the whole of to the end up and down

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Pretty much from the word go, the audience was trying to figure out who killed whom with what and why.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Derry native and veteran sports journalist Peter Jackson observes: "The difference in attitude was that the RFU from the word go said: 'We will send the team. We will find 15 Englishmen.'"

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2022

The Tomorrow War needs a little explaining from the word go.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2021

"Almost from the word go, he started asking me the most direct personal questions about Diana and our relationship," Khan told the outlet.

From Fox News • Jan. 11, 2021

‘Forty-eight hours, but usually sooner. But from the word go, we take the disappearance of minors very seriously. That’s why I’m here.’

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

from the word go

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