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

The best coming-of-age stories derive their power from being endings as much as beginnings.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 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's Cupertino, California garage.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

The weakening of America’s Protestant work ethic, to use a contested but irreplaceable phrase, is a complicated story, but you could trace its beginnings to the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

A long time passed; when at last I rose, my limbs were stiff and prickling, and darkness had given way to the first grey beginnings of dawn.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya