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head start

noun as in advantage of early start

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With a 3-billion-year head start on all other living things, these tiny microbes may hold the key to some of our most persistent mysteries, including “how life first developed on this planet.”

We only get a three-second head start before the akrafena slices a hole large enough for it to wiggle through and chase after us.

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After giving the other driver a generous head start, Timothy muttered something about taking the long way back to the house so they might better enjoy the scenery.

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Whoever takes the lead in London may get a head start rolling out robotaxis elsewhere.

To draw even, China would need to erase America’s more than half-century head start.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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