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third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out
To emerge suddenly; to jump out. examples
To be or become conspicuous; to stand out. quotations examples
I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.
1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102
To begin. examples