at the outset
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“It’s just the way that this business goes,” Adams said at the outset of training camp.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
"DOI provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case," the document said.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Comcast said it expects the tax-free spin-off in approximately one year and that it will hold up to 19.9% of NBCUniversal at the outset.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Or hadn’t projected at the outset that the military operation would last four to five weeks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The reader, then, may care to know at the outset that in 1955 the eldest of the Glass children, Seymour, had been dead almost seven years.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
