begin with

Idioms  

1. see start with.

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Example Sentences

There aren’t many customers inside Dynasty to begin with, but I am the only one that the vendors seem to be watching.

From Los Angeles Times

With Spurs' players asked to man-mark, Guessand was able to drag his marker, Joao Palhinha, to the other side of the pitch with the midfielder slow to recognise this to begin with.

From BBC

Patrick Scholes, an analyst with Truist, said that the industry may not have been “quite as strong as many people wanted it to be” to begin with.

From MarketWatch

Hegseth is right on this point, but then why did he posit it to begin with?

From Slate

I wasn’t a good reader, at least not to begin with.

From Literature