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The billions sitting in funds a decade or more older is just the beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, so Renaissance thinking went, were the cultural ancestors of the “West,” an imagined cultural space then beginning to take shape.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Before joining Liverpool, Kiernan made over 40 appearances for West Ham in the WSL after beginning her career at Shelbourne.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Whales, like humans, appear to be susceptible to certain microbial infections that we're only beginning to understand," said Marks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The cab was beginning to feel awfully tight.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Others, like “Obsession,” catapult from modest beginnings into an echelon of popularity that not even the academics and historians could’ve foreseen.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Despite those similar beginnings, queens grow larger, develop more quickly, and can live much longer than workers.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
The story follows O'Grady's beginnings on Merseyside and on the London club scene before he became well known across the country.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
He argued that “man is neither good nor evil by nature; but the circumstances into which fate places him, from his very earliest beginnings, can make anything of him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
You would never know they had such meager beginnings, these veils, bow ties, even wedding rings braided from machine wire.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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