at the beginning

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“It’s been in my mind since last year, and at the beginning of this year, I started — in earnest — putting something together,” Milgrom says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

The Pentagon announced at the beginning of May that Washington would pull 5,000 troops from Germany.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

“In conditions when people are not aware, this virus might be transmissible, especially at the beginning of an outbreak,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Researchers compared changes in five separate epigenetic clocks at the beginning of the study and again after one and two years.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

“Right back at the beginning, you could have just left me to it. But you didn’t. And I’ll never forget that.”

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook