just begun

“I will continue to stand up for our rights, including the reproductive rights of women, and to fight for a stronger and better future for young people, including creating more affordable housing, reducing gun violence, and doing all we can to rescue our civilization from the climate crisis. The fight has just begun.”

Trump has only just begun filling out the thousands of jobs that open up with a new presidential administration, not including the senior-level career bureaucrats he has said he will replace.

On Thursday, his friend Iestyn Leyshon told the Newyddion S4C app that he and his wife had "just begun to travel after years of work and then this tragedy happens".

By contrast, consider how, when most people encounter a neighbor or colleague who has just begun to wear hearing aids, they studiously avoid acknowledging the presence of a piece of plastic newly appended to their acquaintance’s ears.

As we now know, that war had just begun; it would last nearly a decade, claiming more than 3,000 American lives and costing billions.