auspicious start

collocation in English

meaningsofauspiciousandstart

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auspicious
adjective
uk
/ɔːˈspɪʃ.əs/us
/ɑːˈspɪʃ.əs/
suggesting a positive and ...
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start
noun
uk
/stɑːt/us
/stɑːrt/
the beginning ...
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(Definition ofauspiciousandstartfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Following itsauspiciousstart, medieval music retained pride of place in twentieth-century musicology.
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That is a veryauspiciousstart.
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This got off to a moreauspiciousstart, though again there was a troublesome uncle to contend with.
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There could not conceivably have been a lessauspiciousstart.
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It wasn't anauspiciousstart.
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The inspector's report is not anauspiciousstart, because it has raised fears without providing solutions.
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For a variety of reasons, we have not had anauspiciousstartto today's debate.
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From theirauspiciousstart, the squares have been the envy of the world.
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It certainly did get off to anauspiciousstart.
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It was anauspiciousstartfor this new undertaking.
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That is hardly anauspiciousstartto the promised era of democracy, with new councils coming into being in 1996.
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I venture to hope that it will prove to be anauspiciousstarton the road to progress.
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Despite thisauspiciousstart, it proved to be his last contribution to the 199697 campaign.
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Well, that cast rather a gloom over the rest of the dinner and it was not a veryauspiciousstartfor my voyage.
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Thisauspiciousstartactually was the first of a series of fitful progressions and reversions by the new science with regard to conservation.
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Afterward the sovereign would bathe in sanctified water, then sprinkle it upon attendees to purify and bless them and ensure anauspiciousstartto the year.
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