7
incipience(noun, act, start, process, beginning)
6
alpha(noun, cause, start, top, beginning)
6
dawning(noun, cause, start, rise, top)
6
starting point(noun, expression, top, beginning, opening)
5
celebration(noun, start, beginning, celebration, origination)
5
conception(noun, start, beginning, origin, birth)
5
convocation(noun, start, beginning, celebration, origination)
5
derivation(noun, cause, start, rise, beginning)
5
emergence(noun, cause, start, rise, beginning)
5
entrance(noun, appearance, cause, start, beginning)
5
launch(noun, act, start, process, beginning)
5
offset
5
outbreak(noun, cause, start, beginning, source)
5
showtime
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starting time(noun, expression, idiom)
4
advent(start, beginning, origin)
4
establishment(noun, start, beginning, opening, addition)
4
get-go
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incipiency(noun, act, start, process, beginning)
4
infancy(noun, beginning)
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