commencing

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Commencing the evening was a super hilarious set from actress/writer and stand-up comedian Jodi Miller, who has appeared on America’s Got Talent and is regularly featured on the comedy game show Funny You Should Ask.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Commencing at roughly 10,500 feet in elevation at Green Butte Ridge, the avalanche flowed 2.5 miles down a 3,200-foot vertical drop into the aptly named Avalanche Gulch.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Commencing with a cheerful explanation of how all of us are utterly alone in this world, Charlie Brooker turns to TV's treatment of love and how the "flickering fibbing machine" has misled us about romance.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2011

Commencing early, he worked hard, sometimes kept working into the evening.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commencing immediately, he’d tell them, they would no longer abandon equipment along the route of march.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien