inaugurate

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

The Vatican News website said he would first visit the capital Madrid, and then travel to Barcelona, where he will inaugurate the newest and tallest tower of the Sagrada Familia Basilica.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

International Booker Prize winning-author Banu Mushtaq has found herself in the midst of a controversy after she was invited to inaugurate a prominent festival in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2025

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

He won’t be back until October, when he inaugurates the orchestra’s fall season with a celebration of Frank Gehry and the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Thursday, UC San Diego formally inaugurates the Human Milk Institute, the first academic institution in the U.S. devoted to a crucial element of human nutrition that science is, in many ways, only beginning to understand.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

So I was excited to climb to this fourth-floor gallery in TriBeCa, up past the well-known David Zwirner and James Cohan spaces, and discover the inspiring group show that inaugurates Jacqueline Sullivan’s new gallery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

In those two Names, Son of God and Son of Man, declaratory of the two natures of Emmanuel, He separates Himself from the Jewish Dispensation, in which He was born, and inaugurates the New Covenant.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman

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

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday brushed off suggestions that President Donald Trump was regularly dozing off during Cabinet meetings, as questions persist over the health of the oldest US president ever inaugurated.

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 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

Washington had been threatening to retire even before he was inaugurated as president in 1789, and he had repeated the threat in 1792 prior to his reelection.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

The men had been returning from Iran’s border with Azerbaijan after inaugurating a joint dam project.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

On the riverfront the Renaissance Center was being built, inaugurating a renaissance that has never arrived.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides