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![MerriamWebster Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::97040343.png) Merriam-Webster [@MerriamWebster](/creator/twitter/MerriamWebster) on x 1.1M followers
Created: 2025-06-23 13:39:18 UTC

It is perfectly acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘and.’ 

And it’s equally acceptable to begin a sentence with ‘but’ or ‘or.’


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