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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"I thought we really let ourselves go and attacked the game straight from the word go," said Farrell.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

She didn’t consider herself a singer, and she said that from the word go, but I was like, it doesn’t matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Stone also produced "Poor Things", which meant she was involved in the decision-making from the word go.

From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023

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

From Slate • Jul. 2, 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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