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Also, for starters. To begin with. For example, Out of 50 possible jurors they eliminated 30, for openers, or She believed him, which indicated, for starters, that she was very gullible. The word starters is also used for the appetizer or first course of a meal, as in For starters we had shrimp cocktail. [Mid-1900s]

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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
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Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
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Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
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Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
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The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
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At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
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Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
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But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).
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At length the long looked-for copy arrived, he saw it, composed himself and died, 1543.
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