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- noun Plural form of
onset . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
onset .
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Examples
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New onsets of disease have relatively large impacts on family income and wealth in the United States, especially in the group studied herein.
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English has a relatively complex syllable structure, while French and Spanish have far fewer consonant clusters, so that their vowel onsets are closer together.
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Even here the clamour of battle had subsided into the shifting murmur of recoil between onsets, and even that subdued, to keep the hearing sharp and ready for the next alarm.
A River So Long 2010
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In reality, he was just having panic attacks—severe onsets of anxiety that make some people feel like they are going to have a heart attack.
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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I was thinking about easy onsets and diaphragmatic breathing, but you looked at her and said, “Austin is full of retards.”
What I'd Say 2009
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If you're a celebrity, start bragging about all the "carbon onsets" you buy.
Rob Kutner: Today's Sign of the Apocalypse: Island Fever 2008
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Although perhaps if you stop talking about "epenthetic vowels" in illegal onsets, we could discuss more credible reasons behind Hittite's spelling variations :
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* Note: it seems to me that IE phonology had syllabification rules which favored open syllables, i.e. most consonant clusters would be analyzed as onsets rather than sequences of coda(s)-plus-onset(s).
Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008
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Cancer onsets, like Elizabeth Edwards ', seem to crop up overnight for no reason so long as you ignore this widespread exposure to chemicals in foods, medicines, and elsewhere.
Alison Rose Levy: Vineyard Journal: The Valor of John and Elizabeth Edwards 2008
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The furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing.
Les Miserables 2008
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