start off
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I would start off with the caviar fries and a spicy margarita with a tajin rim.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
For many of the tracks on “Halo,” Day would start off with a producing collaborator and finish on her own: “They’ll usually send me home with the Ableton file, then I get to freak it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
"You're just sort of thrown into the deep end or you start off small and then it gets sort of more and more demanding."
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
It will start off by releasing 15 days’ worth of privately held reserves and one month’s worth of national reserves, according to the Japan Times.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026
We measure it, and Henry says, “Whoa! A forty-incher! You don’t start off small, that’s for sure. I’m guessing about twenty-three pounds. At about three dollars a pound, you’ve just earned about seventy dollars.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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