Synonyms for to begin with
to be·gin with

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1. in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originallyadverb

   before now

   "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

   Synonyms:
   in the beginning, primitively, in the first place, originally, before, sooner, earlier, primarily

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1. to start with

   'to start with' equals 'to begin with'

   "if you start with (begin with) this award, it'll be a great success"

   Submitted by rinat on September 4, 2019  

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1. Mark Gray:

   Many Catholics probably felt that the pope’s comments were not a directive on how they should vote or who they should support, and still others may never have been aware of the pope’s comments to begin with.

2. Gerry Connolly:

   She has shown enormous discipline and internal cohesion, even with a slimmed-down majority, in what is always a raucous group of people and contentious group of people to begin with, so I guess there may very well be a time where we are going to have to deal with the subject. But that's not right now.

3. Bashar Ja'afari:

   To begin with, they (High Negotiations Committee) do not represent the Syrian people, quite on the contrary, by leaving they may be taking away a major obstacle that will allow us to reach a solution.

4. Mike Rounds:

   I already think that the fact that we've got eight to one on the Supreme Court that indicated that it's not coming up, probably makes it a moot question to begin with.

5. Deland Jessop:

   The decaf market was 10 percent of the coffee market. That’s a huge number of people drinking decaf to begin with, we don’t know exactly how big. But the decaf market is worth billions of dollars, so there is space there.