Starting and Working

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Starting adjective - Appropriate to the beginning or start of an event.

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Working and starting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Starting".

Nearby Words: start, started, starter, startup

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.

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Starting and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Starting" instead an adjective "Working".

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

In no time, he became Shohoku High's starting power forward, slowly working his skills to become the team's rebounder and center under the basket when Akagi isn't around.

Source: Accidental Athlete
Deus Ex, being a pastiche of conspiracy theories, has a large number of moles, starting with the mole paramilitary group UNATCO, working for MJ12 and tycoon Bob Page working for himself.

Source: The Mole / Video Games
Cool Gun: The Dreyse Needlegun, the first working breechloading rifle issued to the infantry of a major power (starting in the 1840s).

Source: Useful Notes / Austro-Prussian War

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