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start out

verb

  1. to set out on a journey

  2. to take the first steps, as in life, one's career, etc

    he started out as a salesman

  3. to take the first actions in an activity in a particular way or specified aim

    they started out wanting a house, but eventually bought a flat

“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


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Idioms and Phrases

Set out on a trip, as in The climbers started out from base camp shortly after mid-night. [Early 1900s]
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Not enough people believed they could have a decent life, he told journalists, in contrast to when his parents, who were from Sunderland and left school at 16, were starting out in life.

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She started out the series as this very polarizing character.

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He rose to stardom in the 1960s and 1970s after starting out as a DJ in San Francisco.

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In particular, Adam, a wannabe soldier for the Israel Defense Forces, starts out too troubled and extreme for his depiction to fade as it does.

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“It just started out as a friendship with the victim,” Wagstaffe said, “then suddenly this guy turns into a beast.”

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