adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
start
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He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh .
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We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh .
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We're going to start afresh .
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Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh .
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I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
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Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
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Once he was out of this mess, they could start afresh .
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Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
start afresh/anew
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She moved to Texas to start anew after the divorce.
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Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
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He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.
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I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
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If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
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Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
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Stark had taken me to a place where I could shed my former selves and start anew.
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We're going to start afresh.
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We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Everything is progressing, yet everything has to be begun afresh .
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Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh .
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Our mountains and rivers begin life afresh .
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Seen in this light, and in the light of what he had now told me, I studied him afresh .
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She begged him to stay so that they could start life afresh as a family.
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They see the world afresh , not necessarily the way others believe it to be.
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We're going to start afresh .