start over
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She told me she had briefly wished she didn’t want to rebuild, because it would have been easier to start over in another place.
From Los Angeles Times
“That means sometimes you have to start over.”
From MarketWatch
“On the contrary, one of the lessons we’ve learned in building DoorDash is that to build systems that endure, you must also think and invest in the long term. That means sometimes you have to start over.”
We have to accept that whatever is in the truck might be all we have left to start over.’”
From Los Angeles Times
Will we have to start over as a family of four?
From Literature
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