🧩 begin

Doing · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

verbto start; come into existence

startcommenceinitiateopenembark onkick offset out

Commence is ceremony; initiate is machinery and programs; embark on is the long project with some hope in it.

The other end: endfinish

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