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starting gate

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meanings of startand gate


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start
noun
uk /stɑːt/ us /stɑːrt/
the beginning ...
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gate
noun[C]
uk /ɡeɪt/ us /ɡeɪt/
a part of a fence or outside wall that is fixed at one side and opens and closes like a door, usually made of metal or ...
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Examples of starting gate


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Hitherto it has been going round and round in circles in front of the startinggate to the great annoyance of the crowd.
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I am curious to know why it has been decided to cut off the extra member before he gets to the startinggate.
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The underlying truth is that many operators are terrified even to get to the startinggate.
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We all recall that, when it arrived at the startinggate in the other place, it had already lost a portion of its intended content.
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Sometimes the horses that we have backed economically do not even get to the startinggate, let alone the finishing line.
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That is the startinggate of this matter.
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It is a monster, and they know it is a monster—and it will take five years to get this monster to the startinggate.
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It has put forward a number of obstacles and has not managed to get even to the startinggate.
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The new clause is tightly drawn and it would mean that people could get to the startinggate.
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Therefore, we are back at the startinggate.
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Only then does he pass the startinggate of pensionable time.
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Of course, onus is a startinggate in litigation.
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They would not reach the startinggate for the purposes of adoption.
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Those criticisms reflect our impatience to get beyond the startinggate and move well and truly down the road that other countries are progressing along.
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Lots of capital schemes have literally been at the startinggate for years.
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All of the horses are at the startinggate.
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If this is not done, some real winners may never reach the startinggate, or will be left for others to do.
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I see what is going on at the startinggate.
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It did not get as far as a serious inquiry but it was the only one that made it to the startinggate, much to my surprise.
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The temperature at the startinggate at 1580m 0 was and skies were mostly clear.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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