outset

“It’s just the way that this business goes,” Adams said at the outset of training camp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

More likely is that we really didn’t know how much oil and refined product there was stored around the world at the outset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

He said that the five defendants had denied almost every allegation against them from the outset.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Prosecutors said the agency “provided less than fulsome information” at the outset of the case and was slow to share more information when pressed for it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“I really was a strange one,” is the first thing Massari tells me after I track him down in Florida, as if this were something that must be stated at the outset.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Those series knew what they wanted to accomplish at their respective outsets, but could not match that overall intent with endings that were previously determined for them.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2021

Mr. Blodget tells us that he never expected to advance more than a quarter of the outsets.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond

But the outsets, with the strictest economy, must always of necessity be large, showing that crime is an important drawback to industry and thrift.

From The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences by Hosea Quinby

When a part of the common is enclosed and farmed, the enclosure is called an outset; but the outsets are never included in the numeration of merks of rental land.

From Second Shetland Truck System Report by William Guthrie