Sorry is this is digging up old graves, but searching for this one yields hundreds of hits describing online sources. I'm looking for comments on the non-internet, adverbial usages related to beginnings. An example might be, "We have a new model coming on line in three weeks." Part of me thinks that this is a questionable use. The other part of me fully understands the speaker and sees it as an efficient use of language. Your thoughts?

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