noun
a Latin phrase meaning 'from the beginning'
preposition
used to indicate that something is done from the very start or the earliest stage
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The historian decided to start the narrative ab ovo, beginning with the earliest events.
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Let's just start the project ab ovo, from the very beginning.
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I think we should just go ab ovo and not worry about what happened before.
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In order to truly understand the situation, we need to go ab ovo and examine the root causes.