the walls withstood the onset of the first battalion
the claim that if you take enough vitamin C at the onset of a cold, you'll often recover faster
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circa 1522
alpha, baseline, beginning, birth, commencement, dawn, day one, genesis, get-go (also git-go), inception, incipience, incipiency, kickoff, launch, morning, nascence, nascency, outset, start, threshold;
close, conclusion, end, ending, omega;
cessation, closing, closure, completion, finale, finish, period, stop, termination, windup;
drawing board, first base, ground zero, square one;
creation, founding, inauguration, initiation, institution, origination;
cradle, fountain, fountainhead, germ, origin, root, seedbed, source, spring, well, wellspring;
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