- present participle of begin.
beginning
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When Sexton was sidelined at the beginning of the preseason, Redick said he was not worried about the guard’s status for the Oct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Degraded Starlink communications hobbled Kyiv’s ability to conduct midrange drone attacks and intercept Russia’s new-generation jet-powered drones beginning late Tuesday night, Ukrainian officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"At the beginning of this escalation, we asked them to meet in Muscat, Oman and they refused," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Participants underwent physical assessments over 47 years, beginning at age 16 and continuing through age 63.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the beginning, in 1894, it was called the Louisiana Leper Home.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Those bubbles could expand away from one another while new regions undergo their own Big Bang-like beginnings.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
The appointments come against the backdrop of Wales' failure to reach the World Cup and the beginnings of criticism around the side's openness.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Every year on Mexican Independence Day, the paper celebrates its humble beginnings when Lozano Sr. launched the paper from a modest office in downtown Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
More than 100 of his creations made from the 1950s through the 1980s outline his career, from its beginnings in functional pottery to explorations in abstract formalist constructions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Hearing the sounds, the pulse of Claire, the world of my beginnings, the time when there was no doubt I had a soul.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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