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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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And for the first time since the onset of the Iran conflict, credit spreads — the extra yield investors demand to own corporate debt instead of a comparable Treasury bond — are sending a warning.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

About five years later, when Clive was 46, he was diagnosed with young onset dementia.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Earlier animal studies have shown that these drugs can delay the onset of multiple age-related diseases.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

So your tracker has a really good idea of your heart rate asleep, and long-term tracking can reveal shifts in fitness or onset illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Where farmers depended on rains to water their fields, the onset of the rainy season meant that each morning the farmers gazed towards the horizon, sniffing the wind and straining their eyes.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

It is more common in women than men and typically onsets in 40s, often taking a significant toll on their quality of life.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 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

In the last of these onsets, Sir Philip's impetuosity carried him within musket-shot of the camp.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb




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