At the commencement of the meeting, everybody did not expect it to last long.
Commencement actually is formed with a root word "commence" and a suffix "-ment". There is no prefix.
The 5th word in "What is the 5th word in this sentence" is "the".
The word "be" is the fourth word in this sentence.
I am glad you asked me to use that word in a sentence.
Your question has the word thousand in it and is also a sentence.
Commencement is when people graduate.
Example sentence - The graduation commencement would begin at 7:00 pm on Wednesday evening.
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Onset is a noun that means beginning, start, inception, commencement, or attack, assault, onslaught, charge. Example sentence: The onset of the fever was on Tuesday, so I should be fine by Monday for work.
The graduation ceremony is sometimes called "Commencement" because the ceremony marks the beginning, or commencement, of life outside the academic environment.
Commencement or start. opening, birth, origin, outset, onset, initation, inauguration
In some cases called a commencement
The Professor's Commencement was created in 1902.
Commencement - unofficial - was created in 1999.
Commencement - album - was created in 2001.
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