inception
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"Since the inception of this project, our idea has met with repeated doubt and pushback," said Li.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Returns since inception had exceeded 1000% and the fund had expanded to around $20 billion, according to the FT.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Before joining the Bank of England, Pill previously worked at the European Central Bank from its inception through to the Eurozone crisis, when the survival of the single currency was in jeopardy.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
ABC’s filing noted that the program has kept the same format and focus on topical news events since its inception.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its eventual demolition had been planned from its inception: both Newsome Park and next-door Copeland Park, for whites, were mandated to last only as long as the war.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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While Fleiss has been the face of the “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and other spinoffs since the shows’ inceptions, trade publications report he hasn’t led day-to-day operations in around a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Open—has been intimately involved in both projects since their inceptions earlier in the decade.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 3, 2018
This early phase, from its earliest inceptions in the 1960s until 2000, is what J.G. Palfrey, the former executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, calls the Open Internet.
From The Verge ● Apr. 13, 2016
Performance of the funds hasn’t kept up with the market, trailing their benchmarks since their inceptions.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 13, 2012
Out of the cloud that hangs around the vague inceptions of revolutions, a startling incident will sometimes flash like lightning, to show that the warring elements have begun their work.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
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