Synonym: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, originally. Similar words: begin with, begin, at the beginning, down with, at the beginning of, get on with, in comparison with, with. Meaning: adv. before now.
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31. To begin with, we have little choice.
32. To begin with, by itself it doesn't produce anything.
33. Anderson is, to begin with, absent-minded.
34. It was totally unnecessary, to begin with.
35. To begin with, the sugar maple.
36. To begin with, that is a very vague concept.
37. The trick is to begin with the empty set, which has no members.
38. Don't dot the foundation all over the face to begin with because it's difficult to gauge how much is needed.
39. The contingency fee usually sorts out the questionable cases to begin with.
40. To begin with, these forces have created the most formidable barrier to animal movement on earth.
41. To begin with, it is an attempt to influence a great deal that is beyond management's direct sphere of influence.
42. To begin with, the actual battlefield seemed so absurdly small.
43. Consuela, never fully alive to begin with, dwindles to literary device.
44. Classical music was, to begin with, a similarly less controlled area.
45. To begin with, pictures, especially single pictures, speak only in particularities.
46. The answer to what must be done has to begin with some explicit goals.
47. Your first effort may well look like a rag doll, but this is quite adequate to begin with.
48. Seven hours of beating your brains out when you weren't feeling all that hot to begin with.
49. To begin with the variety of the subject was so dazzling, at times blindingly so.
50. It might be on sale, but it was way overpriced to begin with.
51. It's hard to see how to begin with enough reality to generate action while leaving space for genuine doubt.
52. To begin with, this was the only such pattern in existence,(Sentencedict.com ) but then a new mutation arose.
53. To begin with, we have no need, he argues, of Aristotelian logic, and are not helped by it.
54. The market economic game has to begin with an initial distribution of income and wealth.
55. If you lose weight, will you be as healthy as a person who was never fat to begin with?
56. You don't need a complex system for that - just time and some simple logic to begin with.
57. To keep from going into debt to begin with, set a budget and stick to it.
58. To begin with he asked after the whereabouts of each missing man.
59. To begin with, Sarah Ferguson deflected the attentions of the media too.
60. To begin with, Catholics objected to religious discrimination reflected in the unfair allocation of jobs, housing and industrial investment.
More similar words: begin with, begin, at the beginning, down with, at the beginning of, get on with, in comparison with, with, go with, do with, without, within, go without, deal with, bear with, live with, cope with, do without, meet with, talk with, with young, withdraw, play with, do away with, put up with, agree with, along with, together with, come up with, in line with.