to begin with
advDefinitions
Initially, at first, at the very start.
- To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
In the first place.
- Double my wages? You weren't paying me anything to begin with!
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for to begin with. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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