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onset
[ on-set, awn- ]
noun
- a beginning or start:
the onset of winter.
- an assault or attack:
an onset of the enemy.
- Phonetics. the segment of a syllable preceding the nucleus, as the gr in great. Compare coda ( def 5 ), core 1( def 14 ).
onset
/ ˈɒˌɛ /
noun
- an attack; assault
- a start; beginning
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Delaying the onset of puberty in kids seems like it's punitive, as if they believe neurodivergent people don't deserve normal sexual development.
The infection resulted in the onset of sepsis, which is "likely to have been a key factor" in the cause of death.
Changes in the blood could be present decades before the onset of physical symptoms and they were usually only picked up by scans, which took longer to carry out and required specialist equipment.
But that uptick in total encounters during the onset of the pandemic doesn't reflect the number of individuals CBP encountered, which is a smaller number, according to the Pew Research Center.
"Time outdoors, before a child becomes myopic, helps either prevent or delay the onset of their myopia."
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