How to Use to begin with in a Sentence

to begin with

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• Of course, that only works if your goals were clear to begin with.
  — Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• These stocks have weak holders to begin with who don't know how things are working out.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 July 2026
• The Panthers are somewhat light on guard depth to begin with.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2026
• Of thinking there was any other path but the slippery slope to begin with.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 24 July 2026
• Or—and here’s a new one—that the election was never legal to begin with.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
• Michael Pittman is gone from a wide receiver group that wasn’t one of the league’s best to begin with.
  — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• The team, which was not good to begin with, was 2–10 in the games Levis started.
  — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
• There was a certain amount of skepticism baked into the ceasefire to begin with.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
• Burnout happened because caring was buried under work that never should have been theirs to begin with.
  — Frantz M. Berthaud, STAT, 7 July 2026
• But again, the Embark isn't a fully electric motorhome to begin with.
  — New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
• The comics share a tendency to begin with the personal and then back into a more complex idea.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
• The Tigers also aren't a major offensive force to begin with.
  — David Troy, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
• The real problem was a scheduling process upstream that ran the machines too hot to begin with.
  — Sanjay Brahmawar, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• Deals failed because the people on either side of the table were never running the same race to begin with.
  — Rick Ford, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
• Beyond that, the best storage method will depend on how ripe the avocados are to begin with.
  — Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 2 Sep. 2026
• The reason there were so many children there to begin with was because their mothers, who worked as hawkers, had nowhere else to leave them.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026
• Krux may be about the end of times, but these were dark times to begin with, and the film leaves us hopeful that some of the villagers will find their way back to the light.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
• The answer does not need to begin with another large governance program.
  — Vinit Sahni, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
• Generally speaking, there aren’t many teams willing to spend that much money on a player to begin with.
  — Will Sammon, New York Times, 6 July 2026
• This was an unusual-feeling time to begin with, what made it so that coincidences seemed like the work of destiny.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026
• The stats aren’t great to begin with, and there’s reason to believe that as Brissett is now older, his numbers could regress.
  — Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
• And in both cases, if the moon did not have an ocean to begin with, the simulations showed that a collision could not create one.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026
• Scarcely believing this outlandish offer and not in her right mind to begin with, Anna agrees.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2026
• Operational drift doesn’t tend to begin with a major decision.
  — Tushar Mishra, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
• Democrats were more likely than Republicans to prioritize a free press to begin with, the study found.
  — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
• That means the hiring gains are concentrated at firms that were already heavier AI users to begin with.
  — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 June 2026
• Treating a single snapshot as a durable ranking is how brand teams end up defending a number that was never solid to begin with.
  — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026
• In other words, shoppers chasing the highest number on the shelf may be chasing a number that was never real to begin with.
  — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• Shoppers end up buying based on information that was never trustworthy to begin with.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026
• McGee noted the majority of those workers have much higher starting salaries to begin with.
  — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026