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Examples of begun
begun
State tax revenue has begun to grow again after falling sharply in recent years.
From the kansas.com
In the months since our son had gotten his license, we'd begun to depend on him.
From the post-gazette.com
Excavation work has already begun at the main stage area, resort officials said.
From the freep.com
Expedia and Ticketmaster have already begun collaborating on special promotions.
From the businessweek.com
Our economy has begun to respond to this massive and unprecedented intervention.
From the suntimes.com
She also is paying attention to other schools that have recently begun football.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Schwartz says Stafford has begun to throw and his rehabilitation is on schedule.
From the kentucky.com
The mission's ground team has begun restoring the spacecraft to full operations.
From the sciencedaily.com
The message from the depths was brief, but few epics have begun with such drama.
From the time.com
- Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)
- Get down: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
- Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
- Set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
- Begin to speak or say; "Now listen, friends," he began
- Be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series; "The number `one' begins the sequence"; "A terrible murder begins the novel"; "The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester"
- Have a beginning, of a temporal event; "WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland"; "The company's Asia tour begins next month"
- Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
- Achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative; "This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation"; "You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war"
