English phrasal verb

start out

To begin a journey or activity.

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And at an age where most of us, if you'd recall, were barely starting out.

He started out by his father's side as a chaiwala, a tea seller.

When I started out as a comedian, I did not think I was funny.

Like I said, when I started out, they dismissed me like a nobody.

I was starting out, and I didn't have any particular thing in mind where, okay, this is how I want to start.

My hopeful freshman self had started out college with big dreams.

Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.

Even when I was just starting out, I knew that tennis could show me the world, but tennis could never be the world.