get started
idiom
1
: to begin doing or working on something
You (had) better get started if you want to finish on time.
2
: to begin an important period in one's life or career
newlyweds who are just getting started on their lives together.
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Before we get started, a word of caution.
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Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
We get started at the tradwife sundress store where Mayci and Mikayla try on looks for Mikayla’s 25th-birthday party.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
Here are seven ways to get started.
—Beth Krietsch, SELF, 11 Nov. 2025
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Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
We get started at the tradwife sundress store where Mayci and Mikayla try on looks for Mikayla’s 25th-birthday party.
—Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
Here are seven ways to get started.
—Beth Krietsch, SELF, 11 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for get started
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“Get started.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20started. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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