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• This season, the team needs to be on the right foot from the outset.From the entry on the right foot
• It's worth being clear from the outset, the Chinamaxxing phenomenon seems partly manufactured.2026 May 6, Michael Walker, 1:36 from the start, in Two Weeks in China Blew My Mind, Novara Media. From the entry Chinamaxxing
• Richard Burr and his brother-in-law at the outset of the pandemic, the former senator announced Friday.2023 January 6, Manu Raju, Devan Cole, “SEC closes insider trading probe into former Republican senator”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry brother-in-law
• From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, page 1. From the entry castigate
• Perhaps it stumbles to its knees at the break, effectively losing the race at the outset.2010, John Alexander, Exotic Wagering the Winning Way, page 60. From the entry break
• Dorveille can involve the bodily exhaustion that overcomes the narrator at the outset of his text.2009, James J. Paxson, The Poetics of Personification, page 94. From the entry dorveille
• Failing to statistically test for treeness, they reify the evolutionary trajectories assumed at the outset.2007, Gísli Pálsson, Anthropology and the New Genetics, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 184. From the entry treeness
• Let the electrician know at the outset that you are keeping a snagging list.2004, Julian Bridgewater, Home Electrics, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry snagging list
• Eating the crayfish moqueca was almost as painful at the outset as it was delicious.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 180. From the entry moqueca
• The first is to remove all defined constants at the outset by preprocessing the initial expression.1971, George Horace Woodmansee, A Definitionally Extendible Type-Logic for Mechanical Theorem Proving, Madison, Wis.: University of…. From the entry unabbreviation
• An unfortunate quarrel between our pepperpots marked the outset of our new stage.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry pepper pot
• "More than anything I love children!" she states from the outset, which is technically what the term pedophile means.2020, David Huckvale, Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, page 40. From the entry pedophobe
• The flavor of the event was clear from the outset.2019 September 26, Shibani Mahtani, Tiffany Liang, “Hong Kong’s embattled leader faces barrage of criticism at ‘dialogue’ session”, in The…. From the entry Wan Chai
• On the central issue in foreign affairs—the Iraq war—these ministers have been in bed with the Tories from the outset.2004 March 3, Paul Foot, “In bed with the Tories”, in The Guardian. From the entry in bed with
• Today a box checker may escape detection by claiming Hispanic origin at the outset of a hiring, contracting, or admissions process.2003, Kevin R. Johnson, Mixed Race America and the Law, page 309. From the entry box checker
• From the outset, the scheme looked dodgy.2002 March 11, David Cox, “Blair counts the counties out”, in New Statesman, volume 131, London, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27…. From the entry Cornishperson
• From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis.1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern…. From the entry transcription
• From the outset, the Army was interested in five of the six basic functional brassboards to be provided by the program.1984 November–December, H. Steven Kimmel, “Very High Speed Integrated Circuits for Army Systems”, in Army Research, Development &…. From the entry brassboard
• Thus we knew from the outset that it would be very difficult to produce a major SALT breakthrough at Summit III.1978, Richard Nixon, “The Presidency 1973–1974”, in RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1024. From the entry nuclear weapon
• There are at the outset several ways to communicate poorly.1969 November, Grady Nutt, “When You Need Money or Send a Snap Shot First”, in The Baptist Student, page 34. From the entry franticity
• Commander Bragadin was, at the outset of the war, a reserve officer in command of a “squadrilla” of motor torpedo boats.1957, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, page 897. From the entry squadrilla
• Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over.1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, page 256. From the entry came
• At the outset Mahmoud commanded Mehemet to withdraw his forces and to lay his grievances before his Sultan.1912, Spencer Walpole, A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, revised edition, volume IV, London: Longmans…. From the entry death grip
• As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida’s relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been reticent to accept.2014, Michael Naas, edited by Zeynep Direk and Leonard Lawlor, A Companion to Derrida, page 236. From the entry reticent
• As for the president, Lincoln seemed to have earnestly believed at the outset of the fight that his men would carry the day.2013, Jerrold M. Packard, The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a Family, →ISBN. From the entry carry the day
• He had concluded, 'Arbitrary violence against them now would be to foul your own nest; mar at the outset the future that is your destiny.2007, Roger Taylor, Farnor, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry foul one's own nest
• Your risk profile will not only determine how you allocate your portfolio from the outset but also how you manage your portfolio over time.2006, Scott Frush, Understanding Asset Allocation, page 106. From the entry risk profile
• Macquarie′s position on the emancipist issue was made abundantly clear almost from the outset by his appointment of three emancipists to the magistracy.2002, David Neal, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Politics in Early New South Wales, page 100. From the entry emancipist
• Inevitably those bodies age and uglify under her influence, but if they are outstandingly beautiful at the outset, that process takes longer.1986, Piers Anthony, Golem in the Gears. From the entry uglify
• At the outset I must make it plain that I have no objection to the principle of the Anglo-Eirean Free Trade Agreement.1967 November 30, James Hamilton [later Duke of Abercorn] "NORTHERN IRELAND (MEAT INDUSTRY)" Hansard HC Deb vol 755 c797. From the entry Eirean
• Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport. From the entry glut
• In summary, you would have to be an expert, not a beginning hobbyist, at the outset to understand and apply much of the beekeeping information available on the Internet.2011, Norman Gary, Honey Bee Hobbyist: The Care and Keeping of Bees, Fox Chapel Publishing, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry hobbyist
• Because you have fewer 10- to 15-letter entries in the diagram, you can make judgment calls more quickly by testing out the long ones at the outset.1998 February 11, Michelle Arnot, Crossword Puzzles For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN. From the entry diagram
• We present two children with seizures and other signs of cerebral involvement at the outset of acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, consistent with a diagnosis of encephalomyeloradiculoneuropathy.1988, Excerpta Medica: Section 7: Pediatrics and pediatric surgery: Volume 61. From the entry encephalomyeloradiculoneuropathy
• For Schmitt, such a conception is contradictory, since he believes that in democracy such a will has to be pregiven at the outset and cannot be the product of discussion.2002, Radhika Desai, “Fetishizing Phantoms: Carl Schmitt, Chantal Mouffe, and "The Political"”, in Abigail B. Bakan, Eleanor MacDonald…. From the entry pregiven

Meaning of outset

1. noun An onset; the beginning or initial stage of something.
2. verb To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.

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Questions about outset in a sentence

How do you use outset in a sentence?

Outset is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He agreed and understood from the outset, so don't bother explaining again.”

What is a short sentence with outset?

“From the outset, the scheme looked dodgy.”

What does outset mean?

Outset means an onset; the beginning or initial stage of something.