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Idioms and Phrases

Begin again, as in This article is no good; I'll have to start over . [Early 1900s]

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Example Sentences

He wanted to start over in a new place where no one knew him or his history.

Delay is denial—it will be even more difficult to start over in the Senate next session.

Alana: I think we all kind of want to cut off our hair when this tour is done and like, start over.

Now, some two decades later, de las Mercedes is having to start over once again.

The boys would disrupt the class for a few days, get suspended for a few days, and then the cycle would start over.

I kept explaining to him that I teach at Berkeley and then he'd say, 'I thought you were a consultant,' and we'd start over again.

They decided to write off the past as fair fight and no bad blood, and start over again.

Any player whom he sees moving must come back to the goal and start over again.

They come up here to start over—maybe spent half their life saving up for the trip.

Then she should help him to start over again, to go on with his life.

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