onset
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As a child, I played baseball before the onset of Little League.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Clarkson’s talk show shut down and her Las Vegas residency was postponed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Authorities warned against hiking this route this time of year due to deteriorating conditions and the onset of winter weather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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
Soraya told me that, ever since her mother’s stroke, every flutter in her chest was a heart attack, every aching joint the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, and every twitch of the eye another stroke.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
“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 is like Europe; your friends were right," said Mr. Arbuton as they escaped into the cathedral from one of these friendly onsets.
From A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells
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