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at the start

ADVERB

originally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

basically formerly

STRONG

primitively

WEAK

at first at the outset by birth by origin first in the beginning in the first place incipiently primarily to begin with

Antonyms

WEAK

secondarily

ADVERB

primarily

Synonyms

WEAK

at first first and foremost from the start in the first place initially originally primitively

Antonyms

WEAK

finally secondarily

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By the end of 2025, the agency’s head count was roughly one-quarter smaller than it had been at the start of the year, according to one count.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

A persistent foot injury stopped the 25-year-old training and competing consistently at the start of this season, and he admitted in April that the previous six months had been the toughest of his career.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

“Choose life . . . I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else,” says Mark Renton at the start of “Trainspotting.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

For all the pain at the pump, energy remains a relatively low 2.4% of consumers’ expenditures, up from 2% at the start of the year.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

In the year 525, at the start of the Dark Ages, all Westerners clung to the clunky Roman style of numbers, and there was no zero in that counting system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

at the start

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