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[ adverb ] before now
Examples "why didn't you tell me in the first place?" Used in print (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)To_begin_with , what is an interior_designer ? (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The meaning of the word is quite physical , to_begin_with . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Although it had seemed a good reason , to_begin_with : no couple could afford to have children . |
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