1
as in to inaugurate
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
installed her as the new principal of the high school
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as in to lodge
to establish or place comfortably or snugly
installed herself in an easy chair by the fireplace and remained there for the rest of the afternoon
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Recent Examples of install
The rollout to install self-service kiosks inside Publix supermarkets allows drivers to avoid the crowds and waiting at traditional auto tag offices, which remain open and an option.
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Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
The goal of the campaign is to induce targets to install custom malware tracked as ApolloShadow.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2025
This license works offline and installs directly on your Windows computer.
—PC Magazine, 31 July 2025
As part of that deal, Skydance pledged to install an ombudsman at CBS for two years to field complaints about media bias.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 July 2025
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Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
The goal of the campaign is to induce targets to install custom malware tracked as ApolloShadow.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2025
This license works offline and installs directly on your Windows computer.
—PC Magazine, 31 July 2025
As part of that deal, Skydance pledged to install an ombudsman at CBS for two years to field complaints about media bias.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 July 2025
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Citing comments from industry sources familiar with the matter, the South Korean publication noted that the Hanwha Ocean Global Engineering Center India was inaugurated on Sunday at an industrial hub in Noida, some 26 kilometers away from India's capital, New Delhi.—
Amala Balakrishner,
CNBC,
31 July 2025
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Then, shortly after Trump was inaugurated, ICE officers asked Blanco to come in for another appointment and detained him.—
Perla Trevizo,
ProPublica,
30 July 2025
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The club have lodged their appeal against UEFA, Lyon and Nottingham Forest.—
Robert Olsen,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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The bullet pierced that victim’s left thigh, exiting then lodging in her right thigh.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
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As part of this year’s festivities, four players will also be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, including Chargers legendary tight end Antonio Gates.—
Mark J. Burns,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Last summer, Sabathia was inducted into the Cleveland Guardians Hall of Fame.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
25 July 2025
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This year, the screens remained completely dark, meaning the vast majority of the audience saw nothing more than a distant, blurry figure in a white hat perched behind a piano.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
2 Aug. 2025
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Location The Mandarin Oriental Bodrum is perched overlooking Paradise Bay, on the northern coast of the Bodrum Peninsula.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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In the winter of 1967, Senator Clinton P. Anderson and his space committee initiated an inquiry into the disastrous Apollo 1 fire that killed three American astronauts.—
Matthew Beddingfield,
Scientific American,
2 Aug. 2025
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But such laws are only effective if the individual demonstrated warning signs so that others can alert law enforcement and initiate the process of revoking the person’s firearm, Chittum said.—
Josh Campbell,
CNN Money,
2 Aug. 2025
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Taps played as rain began to fall and the processional paused in front of the digital billboard on the side of a truck parked on the street, flashing images of Officer Islam, both in uniform and at home, smiling with his children in tow.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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Knowledgeable people will park in nearby neighborhoods, overcrowding an area that is essentially at capacity.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Charles Hotel is a contemporary art deco masterpiece situated in Munich’s Maxvorstadt district, nestled next to the Old Botanical Garden.—
Lea Dlugosch,
Travel + Leisure,
22 July 2025
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Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp nestled in the Hill Country, lost dozens of its campers in the surge, along with staff members who died trying to save the girls entrusted to their care.—
Theresa Payton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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Perhaps that’s why, during the Civil War, Lincoln had artillery positioned facing Baltimore rather than toward the Confederacy.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
25 July 2025
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Arnault, who built the company through decades of hard-nosed dealmaking and absolute fidelity to brand, has been positioning his children in key positions throughout the company, with one of them expected to step up eventually.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
25 July 2025
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“Install.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/install. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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