Example Sentences

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With rivals ramping up after significant head-starts, Apple will have to keep churning out hits to compete effectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2022

“They make a lot of assumptions that aren’t in line with reality; it seems they’re assuming some head-starts we don’t necessarily have in our work.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018

He says that a natural consequence of improvements in AI is that big head-starts like Waymo’s are “less significant as they have been.”

From The Verge • May 9, 2018

Motorola will get first crack with future versions, getting “six-month head-starts on the latest and greatest operating systems,” said Mike Genovese, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based analyst at MKM Partners.

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 16, 2011

As Newsweek's president ultimately learned from his CD-ROM debacle, not all head-starts turn out to be valuable.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2009