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The only moment that gets to be the beginning before everything else complicates it.
means The very start or beginning of something, especially an action, undertaking, or period of time.
from A straightforward English compound, built from "out" plus "set" — literally the act of setting out. It echoes the older verb phrase "to set out" (to begin a journey or venture), with "outset" emerging as the noun form, the point from which one sets forth. The same impulse lives in its cousin "onset," where "set" carries that sense of a thing commencing.
- old roots
- From setting out, as on a journey
- twin word
- Onset means start too, but darker
- common phrase
- Always paired with 'from the very'
- sneaky cousin
- Outset starts; outcome finishes the sentence