begun

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Monday, the Defense Department’s “rapid response” account posted on X that “We have Only Just Begun to Fight.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Begun in 2015, Canadian forest ecologist Simard’s “Mother Tree Project” has studied the effects of logging on forests.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

Begun in 2022, work was due to end this summer but that completion date has now been delayed until spring 2026 as a result of "periods of extreme weather".

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

Begun in 2019, the work yielded Mutton’s complete nuclear genome.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 13, 2023

“Dan wouldn’t come and get his supper, neither. Wouldn’t come no closer than the barn. Begun howling right after dark. Versh heard him.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner