Establish and Start

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Establish verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

Usage example: established the first school for the education of Native Americans

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Start is a synonym for establish in set up topic. In some cases you can use "Start" instead a verb "Establish", when it comes to topics like origin.

Start verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

Usage example: started the impressionist movement in art

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Establish is a synonym for start in origin topic. You can use "Establish" instead a verb "Start", if it concerns topics such as begin.

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

character	establish character	start character
life	establish life	start life
relationship	establish relationship	start relationship
career	establish career	start career
Other words: plot, series, line, colony, time, level, world.

Fry: So my attempts to establish diplomatic relations with the Cactus People were doomed from the start.

Source: Cloudcuckoolander's Minder
Happens at the very start of the game, just to establish how much darker this game is compared to Morrowind and Oblivion.

Source: Off with His Head!
The prisoners establish a ruling council, but it's later revealed that everyone from the rioters to the prison administrators were being manipulated by Kareem Said from the start.

Source: Series / Oz

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