initiate
Example Sentences
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Initiate contact with your financial institution at its official phone number to ensure you’re talking to a legitimate representative, and verify whether there actually is an issue.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2023
“Explain why it is there. Expand testing fast to this group. Initiate contact tracing. Promote healthy sex and healthy hygiene practices. Get the damn vaccines into at-risk arms. Stigma is bad — infected is worse.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2022
Initiate conversations so as to hear him speak about the subjects you’re interested in.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2020
Initiate a position in CBS, which just continues to find new ways to generate revenues from exisiting and old content.
From Forbes • Jul. 20, 2011
First, the Initiate declares that the man's sins are forgiven, and then justifies his insight by the authoritative word, "Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house."
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood
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