as in to induct
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
the new secretary of the treasury was instated on Monday
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Recent Examples of instate
Perhaps a better alternative would have been instating a more general Old Hollywood dress code, rather than pointing to two specific, but very different, decades.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
The manufacturer still needs the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval for further Max increases beyond 42 per month, a requirement the regulator instated after a near-catastrophic midair blowout of a panel in January 2024.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Peel was one of the modern Conservative Party's founders and went on to instate several liberal reforms.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
In the nearly thirteen years since his first encounter with the artist, Almqvist has instated himself as a kind of one-man Greek drama—chorus and actor both, once the herald of plot and now its complicator.
—Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2026
The manufacturer still needs the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval for further Max increases beyond 42 per month, a requirement the regulator instated after a near-catastrophic midair blowout of a panel in January 2024.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2026
Peel was one of the modern Conservative Party's founders and went on to instate several liberal reforms.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
In the nearly thirteen years since his first encounter with the artist, Almqvist has instated himself as a kind of one-man Greek drama—chorus and actor both, once the herald of plot and now its complicator.
—Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for instate
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Marking the 20th anniversary of the group, the brothers recently got their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and they were formally inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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The public voted her into the Advertising Week Walk of Fame on New York’s Madison Avenue, making the Morton Salt Girl the first female icon to be inducted.—
Lisa Gutierrez
May 19,
Kansas City Star,
19 May 2026
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The Senator Biermann Ratjen Medal was inaugurated by the Hamburg Senate in 1978 and has been awarded more than 100 times.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
19 May 2026
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The tally arrived around the same time that the Grammys inaugurated a category that connects electronic dance music and pop, as the two have been crossing over for decades.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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The comments came two weeks after the House rejected DeSantis’ push to pass bills to expand vaccine exemptions for children entering public schools and to install consumer-friendly regulations on artificial intelligence products and companies.—
Gray Rohrer,
Sun Sentinel,
15 May 2026
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Designers were clever enough to install a series of waterfalls that spill into the pool to cover up traffic noise from the pool’s location.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
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The settlement agreement that initiated the fund gave the acting attorney general 30 days to create the entity and appoint five commissioners to run it.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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The security footage showed Abdullah reaching for his radio to initiate lockdown protocols while still engaged in a gunbattle, Wahl said.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 May 2026
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“Instate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instate. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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