in the beginning
idiom
: at the start
The company was very small in the beginning, but it eventually became a giant corporation.
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A lot of creatives emulate things, and that’s cool in the beginning.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Nov. 2025
But in the beginning nothing else had a name either, or a pronoun, or a preference.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Others, like Ava Louise, do it through viral media stunts, like flashing the New York-Dublin Portal or licking a toilet seat in the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
—Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
That said, Perplexity’s poem, especially in the beginning, reads more like prose than the rest of the poem, which is a little jarring.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Nov. 2025
But in the beginning nothing else had a name either, or a pronoun, or a preference.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Others, like Ava Louise, do it through viral media stunts, like flashing the New York-Dublin Portal or licking a toilet seat in the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
—Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
That said, Perplexity’s poem, especially in the beginning, reads more like prose than the rest of the poem, which is a little jarring.
—PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in the beginning
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“In the beginning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20beginning. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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