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• Ozzfest kicked off in earnest in 1997 and did it in grand fashion.
  — Richard Bienstock, Billboard, 17 July 2024
• Sometime around 2015, Monique’s life fell apart in earnest.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
• To watch in the coming days: Earnings season kicks off in earnest this week.
  — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
• But this year, work on the initiative resumed in earnest.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
• When the team reports for training camp in July, the battle for roster spots and the No. 1 role will heat up in earnest.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2023
• But before that Job-like tale could begin in earnest, Patel had to get his feet wet.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
• Oregon’s search for a new starting punter has begun in earnest.
  — oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
• The first-quarter earnings season kicks off in earnest next week with a slew of reports from banks on April 14.
  — Hannah Miao, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
• Still, Miller said, the city is looking forward to meeting its new neighbor in earnest.
  — Emily Brindley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2024
• The effort to collect legal fees from Trump began in earnest more than two years ago.
  — Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Those cars began to hit three or four years old last year, and the volume will be arriving in earnest this year and next.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• As the sport began to evolve in earnest in the next century and resorts opened around the world, ski design also changed.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• Even now, and is likely to gain greater momentum as offices (at least some of them) fill up in earnest.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
• Over the past 10 months, the vision for teacher villages has come together in earnest, Easley said.
  — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2024
• The labor market has remained strong despite the Fed’s rate hikes, which began in earnest back in March 2022.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2024
• With the search over, demolition work was starting in earnest.
  — John Peragine, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• March Madness gets underway in earnest with a weekend’s worth of matchups.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Construction on the second phase is set to begin in earnest later this year.
  — Joe Edwards, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• The Panthers coaching search is expected to begin in earnest in the coming weeks.
  — Steve Reed, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Now that the coronation is out of the way, Charles can get on with the business of beginning his reign in earnest, however that looks in 2023.
  — Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
• Which is why, in your third year on Earth, more people began talking in earnest about figuring out a way to turn down the sun.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• The videos offered some guidance, but there will be plenty to be learned as spring practices begin in earnest in the coming weeks.
  — Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
• Advertisement After that, the work of building out the team will begin in earnest.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
• That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
• The campaign against Kiwi Farms began in earnest last summer.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
• Then the fight begins in earnest, and several white people begin hitting the Black man.
  — Shannon Heupel, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• While some theories were posited in jest, others appeared to be shared in earnest.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
• Some Olympic events are already underway, but the Paris games begin in earnest Friday morning with the opening ceremony.
  — Andrew Keatts, Axios, 25 July 2024
• Human destruction of Earth systems began in earnest a century ago.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024