onset

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“There is high confidence in the onset of El Niño, followed by further intensification in the months that follow,” Wilfran Moufouma-Okia, the organization’s chief of climate prediction, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Caroline Semaille, director of Public Health France, also said it could not be ruled out that people transmit the virus "48 hours before the onset of symptoms".

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The government points to an improvement in growth, inflation and borrowing figures earlier this year, before the onset of the war in Iran.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

"This discovery fundamentally changes our previous understanding of the onset of spring in the forest," says the Würzburg researcher.

From Science Daily • May 5, 2026

Soraya told me that, ever since her mother’s stroke, every flutter in her chest was a heart attack, every aching joint the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, and every twitch of the eye another stroke.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini