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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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A person suffering the onset of cognitive decline might easily fall prey to fraud attempts that target them through their smartphones.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

This meant that a succession of actors played Arnold over the years, until their voices changed with the onset of puberty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Helen said awareness of young onset dementia had grown since the 90s - but diagnoses still took too long.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The company said risks similar to the Hugging Face incident could become more severe and common following the onset of self-improving AI systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

‘And our scouts say that they have cast trenches and stakes across the road. We cannot sweep them away in sudden onset.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Research also revealed associations between Agent Orange exposures and later development of nervous system degenerative diseases, and significantly higher rates and earlier onsets of dementia.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

He and his colleagues analyzed 1952-2011 temperature data and found the four seasons no longer occur equally and had irregular onsets.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018

Analyses of the passive playback experiments were the same as above, but the onsets and offsets of the sound sweeps were used as anchor points instead of the presses and the releases of the joystick.

From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017

The nystagmus now became limited to momentary onsets, but in its place I became aware of a peculiar diplopia.

From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan




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