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The phrase "actually started with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate the true origin or beginning of something, often in a context where there may be confusion or a misconception about the starting point.
Example: "The project actually started with a brainstorming session that took place last year."
Alternatives: "truly began with" or "really originated from".
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But the idea actually started with her dog.
Luc: No, this story actually started with just a boy, a Japanese boy.
JOHN COLAPINTO: This story actually started with another writer at The New Yorker, Lauren Collins, pursuing a story on Michelin.
Wasn't this process actually started with the increase in space for readers' letters from the 1970s onwards?
Large-scale exploration and exploitation of shale gas actually started with the exploration of the Lower Carboniferous Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin in southern Tennessee and Texas of the USA in the late 20th century.
Well, it actually started with a drawing on a New York restaurant tablecloth, scrawled by the cult sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman.
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To read this on the actual survey, you would actually start with the final coordinate (R18E) and work your way to the first coordinate (SE 1/4).
It actually starts with breakfast.
I think it actually starts with the electric car.
Usually, we actually start with xy and switch to polar.
"Michelle's range of romantic color actually starts with raspberry, and hotter pinks are fantastic on her," he said.
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