First step
First step noun - The first of a series of actions.
Start and first step are semantically related In some cases you can use "Start" instead a noun phrase "First step".
Start
Start noun - The point at which something begins.
First step and start are semantically related in beginning topic. Sometimes you can use "First step" instead a noun "Start".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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The first step in his "Hulking Up" process is to start no-selling everything.
Source: No Sell -
In Watchmen, Sociopathic Hero Rorschach takes his first step toward that status as a kid: some bullies, one of them smoking a cigarette, mock him (accurately) about his mother being a whore, then when they start getting physical Rorschach grabs the cigarette and sticks it into the kid's eye.
Source: Eye Scream / Comic Books -
Eleven comes up as a magical age in British fantasy quite often, because apart from the association with puberty it's the age where British children start senior school, and therefore take their first step towards adulthood/a new world.
Source: Literature / The Dark Is Rising
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