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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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More than six years after the pandemic's onset, the debate over whether Covid-19 leaked from a lab remains intense.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

The belief, which air theorists had propagated since the onset of combat planes in World War I, seemed confirmed by the results of World War II. However, the U.S.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

The debilitating onset of psychosis was “no longer the start of an inner journey. . . . It was a brain disease.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

"We think that the earlier onset of severe obesity in young people is increasing their type 2 diabetes risk in early life and pulling down their age at diagnosis," lead researcher Dr Shivani Misra says.

From BBC Jul. 22, 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

Much should be forgiven to a class which was daily and hourly exposed to such danger, so sudden in its onsets, so secret and stealthy, so all-pervading.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel




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