Begin
Begin verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Usage example: the religious sect was begun by a small breakaway faction
Nearby Word: beginning
Wind up
Wind up verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Usage example: try to wind up the performance, as we're almost out of time
Both terms in one sentence
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Nintendo Hard: Games with enough coherence to begin with usually wind up in the worst excesses of this.
Source: Video Game / Action 52 -
Character-Magnetic Team: Most of the cast wind up as lab members once the time travel experiments begin.
Source: Visual Novel / Steins;Gate - After many an argument, he and Lizzie begin to have feelings for eachother and wind up spending the night together, and in the morning, Starbuck offers to take Lizzie away with him.
Source: Theatre / 110 in the Shade
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