as in first
coming before all others in time or order
the inaugural event in the city's week long festival honoring the sailing ships
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as in inauguration
the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization
attended the inaugurals of the city's last three mayors
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Recent Examples of inaugural
AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
There are indications that this is already translating to the training fields of America, where Manchester City is competing in the inaugural Club World Cup.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Only Richard Nixon’s second inaugural, in 1973, produced more viewers than the first inauguration.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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The 2023 inaugural season’s batch numbered 1,500 bottles, but it’s been such a hit with cruise guests and demand is so high, that this September, 5,000 bottles will be submerged in an undisclosed location somewhere along the Norwegian coast.
—AFAR Media, 26 June 2025
There are indications that this is already translating to the training fields of America, where Manchester City is competing in the inaugural Club World Cup.
—Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
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Similar to previous inaugurals, Nielsen’s audience numbers do not include streaming which continues to grow as a video source.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Only Richard Nixon’s second inaugural, in 1973, produced more viewers than the first inauguration.
—Brad Adgate, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inaugural
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The legislation centers on making permanent many benefits from Trump's first term that would otherwise expire by year's end, potentially triggering automatic increases for millions of Americans.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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News of its foray into prediction markets has helped its stock price gain more than 100% in the first half of 2025.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
29 June 2025
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The Amazon founder and the former Fox Sports anchor attended Trump’s inauguration in January 2025.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
1 July 2025
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In 2018, a year after a delegation from the tiny region attended the president’s first inauguration, its leadership threw an exclusive reception for American lawmakers at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., spending at least $750,000 on accommodations.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2025
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Phishing Email Detection And Response Phishing remains the most common initial attack vector.—
Karan Alang,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Since that initial semantic shift, so many businesses have gotten away with so many things that the definition has transformed again to include giving a business a chance to get away with something with the hope that only a few entities will utilize it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Because these are open-box deals, the items have been taken out of their original packaging and could arrive with minor scratches—but that won’t stop us from accepting the massive discount.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 June 2025
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The ultra-high-performance model, which debuted in 2023 at the very tail end of the third-generation Challenger’s lifecycle, added a 3.0-liter supercharger to the original Demon variant’s 6.2-liter Hellcat V-8.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
30 June 2025
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Wang, meanwhile, was playing in her maiden WTA final.—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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Bezos himself even boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard for its maiden crewed voyage in July 2021, which came after the spacecraft flew on 15 flight tests beginning in 2012.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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One of the Jet Propulsion Lab’s foremost scientists says the futuristic outpost is still hoping against hope that the president’s plan for NASA will be overturned by Congress.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Giard grew up to become both a voracious reader (with a B.A. in English and American literature from Yale and an M.A. in comparative literature from Boston University) and a foremost chronicler of writers.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 June 2025
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“Inaugural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaugural. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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