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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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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

“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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