End up
Start out
Start out verb - Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
Both terms in one sentence
- You can end up with mysterious, typeless "meat", the extinction of the turtle, and even a fortress where instead of dwarves, you start out with extremely dwarfy elves... or, perhaps, ducks.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Simulation Game -
The trips usually start out mundane, but Ms Frizzle and the Bus end up making them pretty crazy.
Source: Class Trip - Due to the Anachronic Order of the series, a lot of incidents that start out as examples of this end up explained later on.
Source: Noodle Incident / Web Comics
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