Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The point from which any one or anything starts; point of departure.
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Examples
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Especially when you have noticeable differences between cultures, it just seems like a sensible default, a good starting-point, to assume that people are not, on the whole, bovine followers whose base state of comfort is the bliss of ignorance.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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At any rate, the overall picture that emerges from this book of the literary goals and accomplishments of each writer is probably the starting-point from which different pictures might ultimately be portrayed.
Literary Study 2009
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What's your usual starting-point for a Winston Breen novel?
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This theory, indeed, seems to be the starting-point of the concept of social value and the main theoretical reason for its introduction; and it helps to set forth all economic phenomena, and especially those of wages and interest, in a very simple manner -- one that is much more lucid and attractive than that derived from an intricate and cumbersome theory of prices. - joseph schumpeter, on the concept of social value1
Surveys and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What's your usual starting-point for a Winston Breen novel?
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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A lot of this discussion proceeds from the dubious starting-point that ‘Europe’ is a coherent bloc you can oppose to ‘America’.
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Thus, she would tap the western bank directly opposite the starting-point, where she could work up-stream in the slacker flood.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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Although this date is often used as the starting-point from which to make a comparison, it is a silly one.
Recession Dating, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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His next novel, The Master, took as its starting-point Henry James's deep humiliation when the first night of his play Guy Domville was a disaster.
A life in books: Colm Tóibín Susanna Rustin 2010
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It's finally just a convenient starting-point for advancing other agendas.
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