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beginning

[bih-gin-ing] / bɪˈgɪn ɪŋ /




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As an actor at the beginning stages of your career, what did you learn about yourself and how you want to navigate this business in living his story and in hearing directly from him?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

"She was happy in the beginning because she was in town where she wanted to be," recalled Wyn, who visited her friend staying in one of The Kings Head's hotel rooms most days.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

The Krebses and their supporters pointed to that report as the beginning of decades of persecution.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

You can see such stress as evidence that we’re beginning a new chapter in the revolution Edison started.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Some girls, Courtneyand Darlene and someone else, were beginning to shoot hoops across the yard, and the coach, Mrs. Brower, turned toward us, her whistle between her teeth.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

In fact, the game itself had very simple beginnings.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The observations indicate that both hot and cold TNOs have maintained color patterns linked to their formation, with surprisingly little apparent change since the solar system's beginnings.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart rose from humble beginnings in his native Yorkshire to become a global superstar whose work became immortalised portraying characters on some of the most popular sci-fi franchises in history.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But underneath what seems promising, the beginnings of empathy and maybe healing, there’s something performative and calculated in this fast bond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

We can’t go back in time and diagnose him, but from here it looks like a form of epilepsy or, most likely, the beginnings of bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depression.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman


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