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onset

[on-set, awn-] / ˈɒnˌsɛt, ˈɔn- /


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He experienced a similar onset years prior, when considering moving back to Montecito.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

This meant that a succession of actors played Arnold over the years, until their voices changed with the onset of puberty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Helen said awareness of young onset dementia had grown since the 90s - but diagnoses still took too long.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Since the onset of the greening crisis, soaring prices for not-from-concentrate juice and competition from other beverages—particularly at breakfast—have driven down orange-juice consumption by more than half.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

From the onset of adolescence she’d been subjected to a series of unsuccessful schemes; every so often a small group of unmarried Bengali men materialized in the house, young colleagues of her father’s.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

It is more common in women than men and typically onsets in 40s, often taking a significant toll on their quality of life.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 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

For instance, in the cases so far quoted in this book, the onsets characterized by mere worry and unhappiness and gradual withdrawal of interest had all of them typical clinical pictures.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy




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