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head start

NOUN
advantage of early start
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These arrangements are designed to give defenders a head start, rather than make every advance equally available to attackers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Every year you delay costs you part of that head start.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

While giving their kids a pensions head start is a powerful incentive for some parents, how do the children themselves feel about not being able to touch the money for potentially 50 years or more?

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

One slightly stranger favorite is ground beef mixed with minced mushrooms and a little mushroom gravy powder, which can become an excellent head start on stew, meatballs, meatloaf or cottage pie.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

“We’ll do what we can to find him,” he said, “but he’s had a good head start and could be anywhere by now.”

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk


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