outset
the beginning or start: I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
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How to use outset in a sentence
Goodell and Sills said at the outset that they hoped to use the season to “contribute knowledge and insights that will aid the country’s pandemic response.”
The NFL’s pandemic response was a striking success — and a genuine public service | Sally Jenkins | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostEnsuring your mask isn’t too big from the outset will help you avoid having to constantly pull your mask back up over your nose and prevent gaps from forming at the sides and bottom.
At the outset of the pandemic, hospitals faced a crippling lack of supplies.
Capt. Tom Moore dies after covid diagnosis. The 100-year-old raised millions for Britain's NHS. | Jennifer Hassan, William Booth | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostAt the outset, this is a 137% increase over the revised healthcare estimates of budget 2020-21.
India’s healthcare budget sees an improvement, but not as much as the government claims | Manavi Kapur | February 1, 2021 | QuartzAt the outset — in 2010 — almost every state signed up for one of the two testing consortia.
What you need to know about standardized testing | Valerie Strauss | February 1, 2021 | Washington Post
But the real money, Washington believed, lay in the western land investments he had made at the outset of the war.
Bill Clinton courted Mixner and his expertise at the outset of his run for president.
Gay Activist David Mixner: I Mercy Killed 8 People | Tim Teeman | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThings seem fine at the outset, as they always do—the children are fun and adorable, the husband and wife happy and carefree.
‘Force Majeure’ and the Swedish Family Vacation From Hell | Alex Suskind | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the outset, only a handful of the victims spoke out about what had happened to them.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Furious, Perfect Response to Nude Photo Leak: “It Is a Sex Crime” | Kevin Fallon | October 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIs it day to day, game to game, or do they prepare a master plan from the outset.
Tony La Russa Explains How To Make It To The World Series | Dave Pottruck | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSince we are to learn by thinking we must at the outset learn the definition of the three Laws of Thinking.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Here, however, is the place where the water trouble will first arise, which will have to be provided for at the outset.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesFrom the very outset of his career in Spain he showed a lack of strategic insight and a want of rapidity of movement.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonThereupon began a procedure identical to that which had characterized the outset of every successful case of the Chief Inspector.
Dope | Sax RohmerOrganization was Aguinaldoʼs peculiar talent, without the exercise of which the movement would have failed at the outset.
The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
British Dictionary definitions for outset
/ (ˈaʊtˌsɛt) /
a start; beginning (esp in the phrase from (or at) the outset)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with outset
see at the outset.
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