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He did so in his first season to help inaugurate a new festival he called “America and the Americans.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Finally, from 5,000 years ago, the Corded Ware people expanded out of the Russian steppe to inaugurate the European bronze age.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026

To inaugurate his new enterprise, Woods commissioned a portrait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

Modi and Macron will also inaugurate on Tuesday India's first helicopter final assembly line via videoconference from Mumbai, a joint venture between India's Tata Group and Airbus.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

The nation’s capital city was getting ready to inaugurate a new president the following month.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

With “Costume Art,” the exhibition that inaugurates a sweeping first-floor two-gallery space created for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the museum has made a milestone statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

The show inaugurates the new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

Last week, Francis coughed repeatedly as he presided over Ash Wednesday services at a Roman church, and opted not to participate in the traditional procession that inaugurates the church’s Lenten season.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Titled “Artland: An Installation by Do Ho Suh and Children,” the show inaugurates the Norman M. Feinberg Gallery, just inside the entrance of the redesigned education center.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

One seems to meet this vague principle, this reverend Thing, in Shelley's Demogorgon, the shapeless, awful negation which overthrows the maleficent Jupiter, and with his fall inaugurates the golden age.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

British architect Edwin Lutyens was credited with blending European styles and Indian architectural motifs in the new imperial capital, which was inaugurated in 1931.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cuban music lovers inaugurated a Beatles film festival, with fans in Italy, Russia and Greece finding their own ways for commemorating The Beatles’ special place in their lives.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

Trump was 70 when he was first inaugurated in 2017, and 78 when he took office for a second time last year.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Chuck Sams, the last director of the National Park Service, stepped down the day Trump was inaugurated.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Thupa Inka inaugurated the Inka custom of marrying his sister.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

At the ceremony inaugurating the museum, Kim, who was accompanied by Russian officials, praised his troops’ “noble sacrifices and heroic military feats.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Transport Minister Matteo Salvini is inaugurating infrastructure every week.

From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026

Airlines began trans-Atlantic jet passenger service in 1958, significantly cutting travel time and inaugurating a period of exponential growth in travel to Europe.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

During his visit, Widodo is inaugurating several construction projects in Nusantara, including a water reservoir.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

So at their suggestion, we are inaugurating the Manifest Herald’s Remember When contest.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool