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We don't have to go straightaway, do we?
1 the straight part of a racetrack (= the track on which competitors race):
And the runners are just coming up to the straightaway.
Words or respirations, they are thus perceived straightaway in their entirety, as if they have no length, just one 'blow to the ear'.
Having apprehended the open theoretical disagreements in hard cases, we cannot straightaway infer that they are paralleled by latent theoretical disagreements in routine cases.
Two points about this social or demographic type of outsider need to be noted straightaway.
Let us straightaway note that this question concerning regularity does indeed pertain to the existence of legal systems and not merely to their efficiency.
So she was out there using words and expressions straightaway.
But though intriguing and worth pursuing, the notion of the operatic character as composer suggests two related difficulties straightaway.
This comment straightaway invites a question.
It is striking to find this rare reference to the term uttered so casually: it straightaway implies that it was a current term, and a common genre.
