- past tense form of inaugurate.
- past participle of inaugurate.
inaugurated
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“There’s just been too much to do,” Roy said of the chrome gel ritual she inaugurated as a volunteer for Eunisses Hernandez in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and a Chinese military delegation inaugurated a joint logistics and training centre there last year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
In 1964, Paul VI inaugurated the traveling papacy when he became the first pontiff to leave Italy since Pius VII was carted off to France at gunpoint by Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers in 1809.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In January, Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as the first Muslim mayor of the very city that was ground zero for al-Qaida’s attacks.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Besides, the car fire had inaugurated one of the most important discussions of both their lives, a talk that went on for hours, interspersed between ferocious Quake II battles on their linked computers.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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