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Example Sentences
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From the outset, Dan's dark and emotional scenes put into motion a series of events that strain the wider group.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
To make those rates bearable, credit funds structured some loans at the outset to let borrowers meet some interest obligations with noncash payments-in-kind.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Analyst Anthony Moulder says it’s an approach made only by those that are hostile from the outset.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
OpenAI plans to contribute up to $1.5 billion of its own cash—$500 million at the outset, with an additional possible $1 billion—to disseminate its enterprise tools among portfolio companies owned by private-equity firms.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The reader, then, may care to know at the outset that in 1955 the eldest of the Glass children, Seymour, had been dead almost seven years.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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