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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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

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

The visit "inaugurates a path for restoring normal relationships between the two countries," Egypt's foreign ministry said in a simultaneous statement.

From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2023

It is only spiritual power that inaugurates order—the Eternal Beauty may be inaugurated in childhood and among childish toys.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Elizabeth P. (Palmer) Peabody

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

Trump then inaugurated another golf course bearing his name in the town of Balmedie, near Aberdeen on the northeast Scottish coast.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 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

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

Freshly inaugurated to an office he never ran for—well, what would you be thinking?

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

French President Emmanuel Macron begins Wednesday a two-day visit to Britain, inaugurating a landmark exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry and becoming the first EU leader to meet new Prime Minister Andy Burnham in Downing Street.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 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

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

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool