beginnings
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“It should reflect American values: hard work, humble beginnings, doing right by your neighbor,” the interior designer Annie Elliott told HuffPost.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
Go to the beginnings of Hollywood and there are Robin Hood movies: Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, some shorts from even earlier.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Apple's hit products — the Mac, the iPhone, the Apple Watch and the iPad — command a cult-like following, long after the company's humble beginnings on April 1, 1976, in Jobs' Cupertino, California garage.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Across the album’s nearly 80 minutes, Mr. Kahan’s struggle to reconcile his modest beginnings with his outsize success eventually wears you out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
I had lots of beginnings about how I could be the only one to really save Courtney.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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