inaugurate
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At an event, the company plans to inaugurate the Sparks, Nev., factory dedicated to making its Semi truck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
The nation’s capital city was getting ready to inaugurate a new president the following month.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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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
She also attended a small private event this year in place of the large public ceremony that traditionally inaugurates her vacation at Balmoral.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
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
A few years later, it inaugurated its first overseas base in Djibouti on Africa’s east coast and signed a secret pact for access to a Cambodian naval base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“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
There’s now a Fat Marmot Week, a similar event inaugurated this year.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Freshly inaugurated to an office he never ran for—well, what would you be thinking?
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Transport Minister Matteo Salvini is inaugurating infrastructure every week.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
“Trump and Xi are inaugurating a new era in which technological prowess is at the core of the competition.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
During his visit, Widodo is inaugurating several construction projects in Nusantara, including a water reservoir.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Critics fault Mr Gandhi, the face of the party, for lacking the relentless campaigning of Prime Minister Modi, who frequently traverses the nation, addressing crowds and inaugurating projects worth millions of dollars.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024
On the riverfront the Renaissance Center was being built, inaugurating a renaissance that has never arrived.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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