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  • past participle of start.
  • past tense form of start.
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started

ADJECTIVE
begun
Synonyms


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Another tech exec joked that AI researchers have started smoking cigarettes because they are so confident AI will cure lung cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

His race was called before primetime coverage started on broadcast television.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

"I started crying, grabbed my cat bag from the garage and said, 'let's go get my cat back,'" she said.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

“What started as a feature is now the full search experience,” Huffman said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

But when things I said would happen actually happened, she started to come around.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold


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