start out
verb1
To emerge suddenly; to jump out.
2
To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.
- I do not find that any particulars of this day's conversation start out. But it was in general most agreeable.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 102
3
To begin.
- He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
- It would also form part of a new carriage design, which had started out on Swindon drawing office easels two years earlier.2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]): [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 45: