to begin with
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“And in this environment, where affordability is stretched so thin to begin with … there’s not a lot of wiggle room,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
I imagined that my efforts would sound like Kraftwerk or Can, but because I used tropical samples to begin with, everything I did ended up sounding like música tropical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
And they weren’t all that high to begin with.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
There’s no reason for Mamdani’s supporters to be disappointed, because it was never a serious idea to begin with.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
The ones that were born a bit yellower to begin with lived to an old age in the drought; the birds couldn’t see them in the parched grass.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
