Synonyms for began
bɪˈgænbe·gan

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1. List of paraphrases for "began":

   started, commenced, initiated, launched, begun, undertook, opened, beginning, embarked, commencement, commence

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1. Jackson Browne:

   Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

2. United Nations:

   I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from our human rights commitments. On the contrary. We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights, we did not make this decision lightly. When this administration began 17 months ago, we were well aware of the enormous flaws in the Human Rights Council. We could have withdrawn immediately. We did not do that. Instead, we made a good faith effort to resolve the problems.

3. Apple Inc:

   We want to assure our customers that as soon as our engineering team became aware of the details necessary to reproduce the bug, they quickly disabled Group FaceTime and began work on the fix, we are committed to improving the process by which we receive and escalate these reports, in order to get them to the right people as fast as possible.

4. Volodymyr Falshovnyk:

   Our relatives began to call and say that the city was being stormed, that there were wounded and dead, we asked the Russians what was going on and they said there were no regular Russian troops there but we continued to hear that there was shelling.

5. Andre Shepherd:

   When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing, i could not in good conscience continue to serve.