How to Use onset in a Sentence

onset

noun
Definition of onsetnext
Synonyms for onsetnext
  • Trump’s election in 2016 marked the onset of the third stage.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But a gloomy pall has been hung over the conference from the onset.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The Last of Us star was unfazed at the onset of the wing challenge with host Sean Evans, cleaning the meat off the bone.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • One key difference between a cold and the flu is that the flu has a rapid onset.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In fact, more than 80 percent of the studies didn’t even specify the age of onset of the pains.
    — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • At the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, downtowns across the country emptied out.
    — Ash-Har Quraishi, Amy Corral, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The north wind reached 23 mph at least once, discouraging dreams of the onset of spring.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The 30-year-old located his pitches and filled up the strike zone from the onset of his outing.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • For example, the disease is the leading cause of the onset of epilepsy in adults.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • Since the onset of AI, experts have debated its pros and cons for the workforce.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 14 May 2024
  • For an asymptomatic case the rules are the same, but pegged to when a test was taken instead of the onset of symptoms.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2022
  • That was in 2018, and Wong says the appearance was ultimately scratched by the onset of a trade war.
    — Nick A. Zaino Lll, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Some Democrats began calling for Biden to do just that after the 81-year-old stumbled from the onset of the debate.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 June 2024
  • No-knock warrants arose at the onset of the war on drugs under President Richard Nixon.
    — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, not every Tree Swallow responds to the onset of spring thaw in exactly the same way.
    — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Germany’s economy shrank last year for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Those who die of the virus usually do so within two weeks of onset, according to the WHO.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
  • After the onset of Covid, the network started screening for Covid, too.
    — Colin Puzo Smith, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Production was shut down, however, at the onset of the WGA strike.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • By all accounts, the coming year looks like more of the same albeit a bit more uneventful at the onset – which is good news.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Hot flashes weren’t my first sign of early-onset menopause.
    — ELLE, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The onset of the virus triggered more remote work, a trend that caused demand to boom for tech devices and tech services.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This could have been avoided if the Fed had succeeded in doing its job as lender of last resort to SVB at the onset of the run.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • At that time, a friend of mine was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The event, which was due to take place in the Netherlands, was canceled because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Nalysnyk recalled her words to him at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine early last year.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Now, a pair of studies suggests the birds rely on the onset of dusk and the suggestion of fair skies ahead as signs for taking flight.
    — Erin Blakemore, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • At stroke onset, a clot or ruptured blood vessel interrupts blood flow to the brain.
    — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Huntsman New York is at about four to five months from onset to completion right now.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
  • Medications Certain over-the-counter and prescription medications are linked with the onset of Crohn's disease flares.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024

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