start out

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Verb

start out (third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out)

  1. To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
  2. To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.
    • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102:
      I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.
  3. To begin.
    He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
    • 2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the : launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45:
      It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.

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