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It means they begin this campaign as defending champions - something they have not done since the 2004-05 season.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Write guidance such as “Don’t begin responses by praising the question, idea or plan. Just answer it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The California Gig Workers Union hopes to begin bargaining by the end of the year, CalMatters reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

“And in this environment, where affordability is stretched so thin to begin with … there’s not a lot of wiggle room,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

When she tells us this, my knees begin to feel weak.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The appointment makes the upcoming camp hugely intriguing as the countdown begins to the new man's first squad announcement.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

He is eligible to participate in all pre-season activities, including games, before his suspension begins on 30 August.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

A more robust reputation management package including positive posts as well as the removal or replacement of negative content begins at $4,500 a month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Left-hander Eric Lauer, who could be odd man out when the postseason begins, pitches well as Dodgers sweep the Royals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

She started our session, “his name begins with an S”; and in fact, my grandfather’s name was Stanley, which she couldn’t have known.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Ervine was seven years old when the Troubles began in the late 1960s.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Even so, he began rehab, knowing he would miss the entire 1975 season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Koos van der Steuijt, 66, of Lisse, Netherlands, began visiting Green Safaris’s game lodges just as the company started electrifying its fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

As the event began to fade, however, weak signatures of hydrogen and helium gas appeared.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

As he took out a small notebook and began to read names from it, I was suddenly conscious of my rumpled clothes, my long, ragged fingernails.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Engels, who has made four appearances for Belgium, won back-to-back Scottish Premiership titles with Celtic after arriving from Augsburg in August 2024, having begun his career at Club Brugge.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

During the same period that Google and DeepMind were navigating their new relationship, a rival lab by the name of OpenAI had begun working on a large language model.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Now, families of those on board have begun speaking out publicly, describing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Decades of conservation efforts have begun to pay off.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Is this the beginning of a disaster or a strange aberration?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

After Ohtani received a lubricating Orthovisc injection in his knee at the beginning of the All-Star break, the Dodgers hoped he would pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 22.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

But the company’s AI strategy has faced internal culture clashes and organizational hurdles since the very beginning.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

"There's no doubt the Taliban would like to be recognised at the UN but it's no longer as potent a bargaining chip as it was at the beginning," they assess.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Sela reached into her bag and took out a small oval piece of hide, a strawberry in red and shades of pink just beginning to take shape.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith