set out
Example Sentences
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Researchers at Stanford University led by Hyesang Chang set out to better understand why some children find math much harder than their classmates.
From Science Daily
They set out with hope, despite a seven-year stretch in which the God's Crossing has not appeared once.
From Barron's
Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center set out to better understand these conflicting results.
From Science Daily
The Home Office had tried to stop the judicial hearing from going ahead, arguing that Parliament had set out a specific and alternative process for appealing against banning orders.
From BBC
The small band sets out in icy February with tensions already evident between its disparate members.
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