- past tense form of inaugurate.
- past participle of inaugurate.
inaugurated
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Jensen Huang met with Trump shortly after he was inaugurated, discussing AI policy with Elon Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Donald Trump was a director at the company SLC Turnberry Ltd until he resigned the position in January 2017 - a day before he was inaugurated as US president.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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
But creating a new award altogether is more of a rarity — the last time the academy did it was 2007, when it inaugurated the Honors Award to recognize programming that drives positive social change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
The White House meeting that formally inaugurated the thermonuclear age took all of seven minutes, and it only lasted that long because Lilienthal asked for the time to express his dissenting view.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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