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begin

[bih-gin] / bɪˈgɪn /




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Symptoms of Ebola, which are similar to the flu or malaria, include fever, headache and tiredness, and can begin suddenly within two to 21 days of infection.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Write guidance such as “Don’t begin responses by praising the question, idea or plan. Just answer it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Construction is expected to begin this year, trying to minimize impact on normal campus activities.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Add pandemic adolescence, expensive housing and stagnant wages, and different choices begin to look less mysterious than inevitable.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

I get the broom and begin sweeping the kitchen floor.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Her playlist - she creates one for every major event - is already being built as she begins to visualise how that might feel.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

The Fantasy Premier League season begins on Friday 21 August so, to help managers as you tinker with your teams before the deadline, we've gone through all 20 teams and analysed some of their assets.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Julian Hoffman’s remarkable new memoir begins with birds: “The sky was a harbor all of a sudden. Wherever you looked, wings furrowed wakes in the air.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Open, which begins at the end of the month.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

When enough cells are damaged, the body begins to break down.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Charlotte began searching for another way of controlling Billy's seizures.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Like a mass awakening, labels and executives began courting them, making offers that were unimaginable just a few years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

The 1.8-acre estate, which spans two adjacent parcels in the luxurious waterfront community, went into contract just one week after the agent began quietly marketing it.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Soon after the war began, the U.S. shifted dozens of missile interceptors and other assets from South Korea to the Middle East, The Wall Street Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

A whistle roused us at 4:00 when, without even shaking the straw from clothes and hair, the stampede began for the ration of bread and coffee in the center room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Musk has already begun clearing land in the area, prompting some residents to make difficult decisions about whether they’ll stay or go.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Nineteen Manhattan office buildings have begun conversions so far this year, and another 17 are planned, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Especially when I realized that what was in the bowl had begun as a five-item farmers market haul, helped along by a few things I already had at home.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

There, she’d begun to plant her roots in an artistic community, spending most of the last year and some change nestled in with her new flock of bohemian neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The equipment revealed that below the silt, where they had begun to look, there was something huge waiting to be uncovered.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Sean “Jack” Murphy has been choreographing for “Bridgerton” since the beginning, crafting the physical vocabulary of the characters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

The results showed that greater screen time beginning in childhood was associated with better cognitive processing in adolescence.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

The third is now beginning: figuring out how to pay for the system without making it less useful.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Is this the beginning of a disaster or a strange aberration?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

But Theo said he hadn’t been outside all night, not since we got home, and the rain didn’t start until much later—it was only beginning to rain when I reached Central.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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