Proceed
Proceed verb - To move forward along a course.
Start out and proceed are semantically related in start topic. In some cases you can use "Start out" instead a verb "Proceed".
Nearby Word: proceeding
Start out
Start out verb - Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- The "Good Guys" start out on their way to prison, with only the main character being actually unjustly convicted (Or was he?), and proceed to fight against the even worse Federation by stealing things and blowing stuff up.
- Bait and Switch: They start out making the Scissor blade normally: drawing the pattern and plasma cutting the blade out of steel... Which they then throw out, whip out a bucketful of actual scissors, and proceed to forge the blade out of those.
Source: Web Video / Man at Arms -
The drug metaphor sometimes breaks down here, as villains will start out experiencing This Is Your Brain on Evil, then proceed to become Drunk on the Dark Side when their humanity degrades to the point that they stop fighting it.
Source: Drunk on the Dark Side
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