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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
commence .
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Examples
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The officer is allowed his salary from that date, upon the principle that the commission is a grant of the office, and the title commences with the date of the grant.
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"The term commences next week," explained my father.
Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
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As he explained in the preface to The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in Upper Galilee, "The history of the Jewish people in the full sense of the word commences only in the Land of Israel, with the beginnings of the settlement in ancient Canaan."
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As he explained in the preface to The Settlement of the Israelite Tribes in Upper Galilee, "The history of the Jewish people in the full sense of the word commences only in the Land of Israel, with the beginnings of the settlement in ancient Canaan."
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No date has been set for the appeal, but it is expected to be heard when the Supreme Court of Appeal's third term commences in
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The number of triangles in conjunction with the initial 'H' indicates the name commences with that letter, and, being near the rim, at no great distance of time.
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer
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The theist, in short, commences with a wrong conception of causation.
Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen
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The presidential term commences the 4th of March next after the election, and ends the 3d day of March four years thereafter.
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MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, -- I am to speak to you today for a little time on the situation and conditions which will confront us, or may confront us, when war ceases and when peace again commences to bless the world.
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It is remarkable enough, that in the greater part of the derivatives from the Sanskrit the Basque has dropped the initial consonant, so that the word commences with a vowel.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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