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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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Jeffries was declared "mentally incompetent" by a court last year and said to be suffering with dementia and late onset of Alzheimer's disease.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

More than six years after the pandemic's onset, the debate over whether Covid-19 leaked from a lab remains intense.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

But so, too, was the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which sharply curtailed the Democratic nominating fight.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2026

The belief, which air theorists had propagated since the onset of combat planes in World War I, seemed confirmed by the results of World War II. However, the U.S.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Research also revealed associations between Agent Orange exposures and later development of nervous system degenerative diseases, and significantly higher rates and earlier onsets of dementia.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2024

He and his colleagues analyzed 1952-2011 temperature data and found the four seasons no longer occur equally and had irregular onsets.

From Seattle Times Sep. 22, 2021

We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.

From Slate Nov. 29, 2018

Analyses of the passive playback experiments were the same as above, but the onsets and offsets of the sound sweeps were used as anchor points instead of the presses and the releases of the joystick.

From Nature Mar. 28, 2017

There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various




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