begin
verb (used without object)
to proceed to perform the first or earliest part of some action; commence; start.
will have begun
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future perfectof begin.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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By the end of gastrulation, an embryo will have begun to differentiate distinct cell types, set up the basic axes of the body and internalize some of the precursors for organs in a three-dimensional structure.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
Most economists, though, don’t think a recession will have begun until the unemployment rate has risen steadily.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
But while linkers are hardly new, most fixed income traders in London or New York will have begun working long after the last major inflation flare-up in the developed world, the 1970s.
From Reuters ● Feb. 8, 2022
By week’s end, about 36% of children will have begun, including those who started earlier.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
Repeat the commonest word in the English language twenty times, and before the twentieth repetition you will have begun to wonder whether the word which you repeat is really the word you mean to utter.
From Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
