head start

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The higher baseline - or head start - means similar summer weather patterns now reach heatwave and extreme heat thresholds more easily.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

China already has a head start in automation.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

And Delrahim’s move gave Ellison’s Paramount a head start in the regulatory approval process.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Financial services was Anthropic’s first industry focus, Pelosi said, giving the company a head start in the sector.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond