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Discover LudwigThe phrase "that commence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to events, actions, or processes that begin or start. Example: "The meeting will focus on the projects that commence next quarter."
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As soon as the first spring rains fall, the Bedouins who frequent the wide sand plains that commence just east of Damascus and stretch hundreds of miles to Baghdad begin scouring the ground for the telltale grasses and cracks indicating that truffles lie just beneath the surface.
The first step in finding potential mitigating materials is conducting a sequence of upscaling studies that commence with controlled laboratory experiments.
I'm specifically thinking about press releases that commence with something like "Initech, the largest manufacturer of red staplers engraved with our company logo, has just won the Buzo Award for the most uncreative use of the word 'largest' in the history of mankind".
During Ramadan, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, followed by evening meals that commence with at least one date, a practice believed followed by the prophet Muhammad.
Certain toxicants induce a very similar undulating notochord sheath defect [51] [53], which can be completely suppressed by inhibiting spontaneous myotome contractions that commence around 17 hpf [54].
In mammals, this Ca2+ signal is delivered in the form of long-lasting Ca2+ oscillations that commence after gamete fusion and persist beyond the completion of meiosis [ 3].
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A river trip is a comedy of manners that commences each day with the sheepish, intermittent parade to the groover.
"Today, Evening Standard Ltd and Independent Print Ltd are announcing a programme that commences a complete restructuring of the way we intend to create and publish our content.
The Community Shield and Europa League provide distractions from Wigan's solitary, crucial aim for the season, one that commenced with an impressive display and 4-0 win at Barnsley last weekend.
Then there is Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds (Chronicle Books, $50), a book that commences with Marilyn Monroe (Miss December , 1953 and closes with Sasckya Porto (Miss December, 2007).
But the "new thinking" of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the former Soviet president, was not an aberration but the culmination of evolutionary changes that commenced with Stalin's death.
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