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start in

verb
  1. To begin (to do something); to get started. (US, informal, intransitive) · When she starts in about her teas, she just won't stop for hours!
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I ought to be home studying my Virgil--that horrid old professor gave us twenty lines to start in on tomorrow.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 295 · C1
It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subsequent start in private practice, the very intimate relations which had existed between Holmes and myself became to some extent modified.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 102 · B2
You have made a strange start in life.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 66 · B2
When we have found who he is and who his associates are, we should have a good start in learning what he was doing in Pitt Street last night, and who it was who met him and killed him on the doorstep of Mr.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 78 · C1

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