for starters
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They don’t perform in the same way; gold, for starters, is seen as a countercyclical asset.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
He also said that increasing eligibility starting at age 50 is not very scientific; for starters, it’s unfair to 49-year-olds.
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025
"I'd have prawn puri for starters, lamb rogan josh, Bombay potatoes with some saag aloo, peshwari naan, all the poppadoms, pilau rice, saag paneer," Benn says.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025
And it’s nothing new — think the Christian pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela, Jerusalem and Rome of the Middle Ages, for starters.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024
But here, for starters, is Quintilian: “The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
