Started can be categorized as a verb.
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| start - get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" | ||
| start - get going or set in motion; "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer" | ||
| start - play in the starting lineup | ||
| start - bulge outward; "His eyes popped" | ||
| start - begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job" | ||
| start - begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!" | ||
| start - 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" | ||
| start - bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" | ||
| start - 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" | ||
| start - leave; "The family took off for Florida" | ||
| start - 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" | ||
| start - move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" | ||
| start - have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony" | ||
| start - 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" |
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| 1. | verb | As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments.... | |
| 2. | verb | Response: The US has succeeded in politically isolating Hamas, and started the process of cutting off its funding. | |
| 3. | verb | Then, in 1973, as Bush made plans to leave the Guard and go to Harvard Business School, he again started showing up frequently. | |
| 4. | verb | After asking me which tribe I belong to (thus assessing my sectarian background) he started hurling abuses at the Shia, calling them Persians, Majoos (fire worshippers), rabid dogs and a handful of other descriptions that I can't mention here. | |
| 5. | verb | When the FLDS under Mr. Jeffs (and his father before him) grew to some 10,000 followers in several southwestern communities with estimated assets of $110 million; when it became clear that government officials, school authorities, and police in those communities had become intertwined with the sect; when ex-members increasingly reported child and sexual abuse charges (mainly involving underage girls forced to marry older men); and when the sect began to use secluded compounds, state and federal authorities started to crack down more vigorously. | |
| 6. | verb | More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started. | |
| 7. | verb | Leahy's chief of staff apparently started with the strong predisposition that some right-winger was involved because two liberal democrats had been targeted. | |
| 8. | verb | You are right, we do need a formal plan, Thane has started an initial draft. | |
| 9. | verb | As for me, well, I lead the simple life, own a little house in West University, own a little car (I had to buy a new one recently - the 14-year old 380 SE started scaring me a bit), you know, the usual. | |
| 10. | verb | This financing activity was primarily started to help ENA secure long term well head and pipeline natural gas supplies to supplement the gas trading desk activities. | |
| 11. | verb | "A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling." | |
| 12. | verb | U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie started a hero fund in 1904 after being inspired by rescue stories from a mine disaster that killed 181 people. | |
| 13. | verb | The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. | |
| 14. | verb | Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. | |
| 15. | verb | The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. |
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| As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments.... |
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| Response: The US has succeeded in politically isolating Hamas, and started the process of cutting off its funding. |
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| Then, in 1973, as Bush made plans to leave the Guard and go to Harvard Business School, he again started showing up frequently. |
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| After asking me which tribe I belong to (thus assessing my sectarian background) he started hurling abuses at the Shia, calling them Persians, Majoos (fire worshippers), rabid dogs and a handful of other descriptions that I can't mention here. |
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| When the FLDS under Mr. Jeffs (and his father before him) grew to some 10,000 followers in several southwestern communities with estimated assets of $110 million; when it became clear that government officials, school authorities, and police in those communities had become intertwined with the sect; when ex-members increasingly reported child and sexual abuse charges (mainly involving underage girls forced to marry older men); and when the sect began to use secluded compounds, state and federal authorities started to crack down more vigorously. |
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| More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started. |
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| Leahy's chief of staff apparently started with the strong predisposition that some right-winger was involved because two liberal democrats had been targeted. |
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| You are right, we do need a formal plan, Thane has started an initial draft. |
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| As for me, well, I lead the simple life, own a little house in West University, own a little car (I had to buy a new one recently - the 14-year old 380 SE started scaring me a bit), you know, the usual. |
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| This financing activity was primarily started to help ENA secure long term well head and pipeline natural gas supplies to supplement the gas trading desk activities. |
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| "A few seconds later my girlfriend saw the shadow of a bear's paw through the tent fly and then it started ripping through the ceiling." |
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| U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie started a hero fund in 1904 after being inspired by rescue stories from a mine disaster that killed 181 people. |
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| The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. |
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| Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. |
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| The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. |
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