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starting point
noun as in base
noun as in beginning
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noun as in commencement
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in hypothesis
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in incipience
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in incipiency
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noun as in leadoff
Weak matches
- alpha
- basis
- birth
- blastoff
- commencement
- creation
- dawn
- dawning
- day one
- genesis
- inauguration
- inception
- incipience
- incipiency
- induction
- infancy
- initiation
- installation
- introduction
- kickoff
- launch
- onset
- opener
- opening
- origin
- origination
- outset
- point of departure
- preface
- prelude
- presentation
- rise
- root
- rudiment
- source
- spring
- square one
- start
- takeoff
- threshold
- top
noun as in origin
noun as in origination
noun as in root
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in source
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
The starting point for the proposed Chuckwalla monument is Painted Canyon, an area near the eastern edge of the Coachella Valley where the mountainside is stained deep red, pink, green and gray.
The researchers did not select the drug at random: this study followed comprehensive analyses of genome data in order to find starting points for repurposing established drugs.
What’s a high school basketball team supposed to do when a week before its season begins, the starting point guard and a former player are found shot to death?
“We talked about possibly doing a surreal yellow, almost postapocalyptic look, but it just had this artificiality that we didn’t like, so we leaned into real photography as a starting point.”
Dylan Andrews, UCLA’s presumed starting point guard, goes up every day against transfer Skyy Clark, who led Louisville in scoring last season.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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