starting line
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The IPO is no longer the starting line.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
And we didn’t train to lose before we even stepped up to the starting line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The inaugural marathon under Burke’s stewardship took place in 1986, and 11,000 racers toed the starting line, nearly half the size of the long-running and world-famous New York City Marathon that same year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
"I had a ball of yarn in my belt bag and cast on my first stitch as soon as I crossed the starting line," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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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