start out

Meanings

verbstart out (third-person singular simple present starts out, present participle starting out, simple past and past participle started out)

present singular third person starts out · participle present starting out · participle past started out · past started out

To emerge suddenly; to jump out.First known use 14th c.
To be or become conspicuous; to stand out.First known use 16th c.
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
To begin.First known use 16th c.
He started out writing for the school magazine, and now he's a TV talk show celebrity.
1 more example
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