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[stahrt] / stɑrt /


NOUN
sudden involuntary movement of the body
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Most Test matches start the same way, very physical, and that won't be changing at all this week for any game.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Thuringia, Ms. Hoyer writes, “had a head start in the Nazification of society.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But that’s what makes Dieffenbach’s first Football Bowl Subdivision start against Wisconsin on Saturday at the Rose Bowl so special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Eventually, the yield gets high enough that investors stop asking how much further bond prices can fall and start asking how much they should buy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

We’re sitting in the Gertrude boat, me in front, Zara behind me, ready for the race to start.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

And with humidity expected to be above 60% inside HBF Park, Williams expects the toughest of starts against a Tonga side who have evolved since 2023 and are packed with NRL talent.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

A 10-year Treasury yielding more than 5% starts looking awfully attractive to retirees, pension funds, insurers, foreign institutions and anyone else searching for dependable income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dodgers could look very different when spring training starts — if spring training starts — in February.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

It also starts DSV at sector perform with a 1,250 Danish kroner price target and Kuehne + Nagel at sector perform with a 235 Swiss franc target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Aunt Melissa makes room in the fridge for her pasta salad, then starts chopping walnuts.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands form the western storm-naming group which started naming storms in 2015.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“When I started doing standup, the direction and the notes were always like: ‘Release any character you have in mind and just access yourself,’” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But the immigration crackdown has also started hitting builders in wider swaths of the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

One big difference is that the previous dips below the 50-DMA actually produced points on a uptrend line that started at the nearly eight-month low hit on March 30.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

It had started in English class, midway through the afternoon, her last class of the day.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"Hopefully we come out on top. The combinations are really starting to come together now, so we're just excited and we're all ready to go."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Dodgers’ starting rotation, the most expensive in history, gave up 16 hits and 13 runs in 18 innings for a 6.50 earned-run average.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced plans to expand its Maia systems to multigigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making them its primary infrastructure for inference across its products and services.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

This approach could make it possible to manufacture large numbers of engineered immune cells from a starting population that can be continually expanded, instead of repeatedly collecting and preparing mature cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

I asked, a shiver running through me now that the terror of the situation was starting to fade.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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