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as in founded
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
inaugurated the college's athletic program for women
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as in inducted
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
the president inaugurated the newest member of the club with a welcoming speech
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Recent Examples of inaugurated
Federal employees typically receive 11 public holiday days per calendar year, plus an additional day on the day a new president is inaugurated.
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Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
The Conjuring is an out-and-out masterpiece that introduced Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga’s versions of real-life ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren and inaugurated what would become horror’s first $2 billion franchise.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Those moves suggest that legacy media is still finding its footing amid the era of streaming inaugurated by Netflix.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
After Kibaki’s victory was declared, the president was inaugurated in a strange dusk ceremony that infuriated Odinga’s camp.
—CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
The last iteration of Abu Dhabi Art, inaugurated in 2007, will take place this fall before the event transforms to Frieze Abu Dhabi in November 2026.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Oct. 2025
In its 2024 edition, the festival inaugurated the Country of Honor, with Palestine holding that distinction and programming featuring a spate of Palestinian films.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
That May, days after Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his first term as Russia’s President, a high-ranking Kremlin official conveyed a list of demands to NTV.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
The Penne site was inaugurated in early September, and Solomeo will be unveiled in November.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
The Conjuring is an out-and-out masterpiece that introduced Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga’s versions of real-life ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren and inaugurated what would become horror’s first $2 billion franchise.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Those moves suggest that legacy media is still finding its footing amid the era of streaming inaugurated by Netflix.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
After Kibaki’s victory was declared, the president was inaugurated in a strange dusk ceremony that infuriated Odinga’s camp.
—CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
The last iteration of Abu Dhabi Art, inaugurated in 2007, will take place this fall before the event transforms to Frieze Abu Dhabi in November 2026.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Oct. 2025
In its 2024 edition, the festival inaugurated the Country of Honor, with Palestine holding that distinction and programming featuring a spate of Palestinian films.
—Essie Assibu, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
That May, days after Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his first term as Russia’s President, a high-ranking Kremlin official conveyed a list of demands to NTV.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
The Penne site was inaugurated in early September, and Solomeo will be unveiled in November.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inaugurated
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Jared Isaacman, who founded the payments company Shift4, has organized, funded and commanded two private astronaut missions to Earth orbit, both of them using SpaceX hardware.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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All the company had emitted since Gates founded it in 1975 would be gone, the full footprint washed away.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Koufax retired at 30 years old due to chronic elbow pain and became the youngest person ever inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at 36 years old.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Soundgarden want to honor its Pacific Northwest roots as the band is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next month.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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If successful, Proposition 50 would ditch a nonpartisan commission California voters established via a 2010 ballot initiative that draws those district boundaries.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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After joining Harvard’s faculty, Morgan established the Hip Hop Archive and Research Institute in 2007, recognizing the genre’s deep intellectual and cultural value at a time when few in academia did.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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An investigation initiated after their deaths discovered that Pearce had raped several women across more than a decade.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Ahead of the stock’s Nasdaq debut, BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of Solstice with a buy-equivalent rating and a price target of $70 apiece.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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Orbiting Laboratory Advertisement The science work that will be done aboard the commercial stations was also pioneered aboard the ISS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Around the same time, the Human-Machine Interaction Group pioneered early work in virtual reality, building headsets and gloves that foreshadowed today’s AR/VR technology.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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The software, called VenApp, was originally launched by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2022 as a hybrid application, integrating a messaging service with a helpline for people to report issues with utility services, such as power outages and water disruptions.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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For instance, Biden, with the other G7 leaders, launched a six-hundred-billion-dollar multilateral effort—the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment—to offer infrastructure financing to developing countries as an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dark energy was introduced as a placeholder force to explain this accelerating expansion.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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More on the science behind the portfolio diet A few small studies led by Jenkins in 2003, including the trial that introduced the diet to the world, found an association between following the portfolio diet and a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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See our fan gallery created by Courier Journal photographer Scott Utterback.—
Stephanie Stremplewski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Examples include the hospitality boxes F1 has created with Lewis Hamilton and Gordon Ramsay for 2025.—
Patrick Iversen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Inaugurated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaugurated. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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