starting line
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"I think she is starting from a position of such incredible disadvantage that just getting her to the starting line is incredibly difficult," her mum said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
“The starting line for everybody isn’t equal,” said Heilbroner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The IPO is no longer the starting line.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
This was the starting line for roughly 70 drivers who gathered to celebrate the centennial of Route 66 with a 2,448-mile, 20-day caravan to Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
They would leave the starting line with just enough of a surge to get some momentum behind the boat but then drop immediately to a low stroke rate of twenty-eight or twenty-nine.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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