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"form": "starts in on",
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},
{
"form": "starting in on",
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"participle",
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{
"form": "started in on",
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"ref": "2013, Carol Brisebois, House on Fire, page 180",
"text": "She started in on the closet, hoisting boxes from the shelf and placing them on the floor.",
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"ref": "2014, Soren Knox, On Causal Shores: Palimpsest Veil and Ananke Protocol, page 12",
"text": "I pulled out my calculus book and started in on a basic question about limits.",
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"To make a start on; to begin to tackle."
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"(informal) To make a start on; to begin to tackle."
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"ref": "2010, Tom Davy, The Map on the Chuck Wagon Canvas, page 158",
"text": "He started in on Chico and Mexicans in general and then he blasted Santa Anna with his cowboy rhetoric. As Lon talked, his prejudices rose to the surface and his comments became more and more vindictive.",
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"(informal) To attack verbally or physically."
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"ref": "2010, Tom Davy, The Map on the Chuck Wagon Canvas, page 158",
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