onset
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With buyer traffic to newly built homes at the lowest level since April 2012, excluding the onset of the pandemic, 43% of home builders are cutting prices in October.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Authorities warned against hiking this route this time of year due to deteriorating conditions and the onset of winter weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The owner of a Sri Lankan shipping repair company that dispatched a team to an Iranian ship just before the onset of the new restrictions found that provisions on the tanker were dwindling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
About five years later, when Clive was 46, he was diagnosed with young onset dementia.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Then the king raised his hand, and with a rush like the sudden onset of a great wind the last host of Rohan rode thundering into the West.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Following each meal, my entire family experienced acute onsets with violent vomiting, watery diarrhea, and profound weakness.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
At these points the circulatory reserves of the insect are pulsing in tidal onsets.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
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