installments

variants also instalments
plural of installment
as in inaugurations
the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization attended the installment of the new university president

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Recent Examples of installments New installments drop weekly on Thursdays, exclusive to Prime Video. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Aug. 2026 The law sends four installments of $2,500 next year to paraprofessionals, whose starting salary is about $32,600. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026 In fact, serial literature – where a more extensive work was published in a series of smaller, sequential installments --- had been a popular publishing technique from the Victorian Era in England to the 20th century. Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 But don’t worry, familiarity with the comics or other franchise installments are not required. Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026 After directing the first two installments — both of which formerly held spots on Netflix’s Most Popular Films list — Sam Hargrave is back at the helm, working from a script by David Weil, based on a story by Ande Parks, Joe Russo & Anthony Russo. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026 Seen together, the trilogy charts both a personal coming-of-age and a generational coming-to-grips with aging that, even when compared against similar serialized documentary experiments like Michael Apted’s 7 Up installments, feels wholly unique. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2026 In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media. Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Participating American citizens were paid up to $30,000, generally in installments tied to milestones in the green card application process. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • Roosevelt took his first oath of office on March 4, 1933, but his subsequent inaugurations took place on January 20.
    Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Fireworks herald the World Cup, the Olympics, inaugurations, weddings, railroad openings, royal matrimony, saints, the Saints, the spring equinox, eclipses, the New Year, the Day of the Dead, the beginning of summer, the end of it.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
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  • Van Dijk and her fellow travelers even brought their own swag to give out and said inaugurals feel like a bonding experience for everyone on the flight.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 10 May 2026
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  • To keep the arrays from catching the wind like sails, engineers mount the solar panels at much flatter tilt angles than those used in typical ground installations.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • American Home Shield covers unknown preexisting conditions and improper installations.
    Alora Bopray, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • Rates are also moving higher as companies issue more debt to fund their outsized artificial intelligence investments, creating more competition for capital.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The firm specializes in technology investments, with notable ventures into OpenAI, Anthropic, DoorDash, Spotify and Airbnb, among many others.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
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  • Plus, quiet periods are ending for banks that worked on last month’s blockbuster IPO, so we’re met with a flood of analyst initiations.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But some like the Kimbell’s have eyes and other piercings cut into them and used likely as part of initiations or the end of a ritual.
    James Russell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Nov. 2025

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“Installments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/installments. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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