onset
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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
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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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