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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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A person suffering the onset of cognitive decline might easily fall prey to fraud attempts that target them through their smartphones.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

All three companies that quarter posted their highest profits since the onset of the Ukraine war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This meant that a succession of actors played Arnold over the years, until their voices changed with the onset of puberty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The owner of a Sri Lankan shipping repair company that dispatched a team to an Iranian ship just before the onset of the new restrictions found that provisions on the tanker were dwindling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Jimmie’s sisters Pat and Margaret, and their families, lived right across the street, so from the onset our house was full of life.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

“Following each meal, my entire family experienced acute onsets with violent vomiting, watery diarrhea, and profound weakness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Research also revealed associations between Agent Orange exposures and later development of nervous system degenerative diseases, and significantly higher rates and earlier onsets of dementia.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

He and his colleagues analyzed 1952-2011 temperature data and found the four seasons no longer occur equally and had irregular onsets.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018

It was in repelling these furious onsets, that the newly raised black regiment, under Col.

From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams


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