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
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday afternoon inaugurate the five-day AI Impact Summit, which aims to declare a "shared roadmap for global AI governance and collaboration".
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
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Some of AI’s top names, including OpenAI’s Chief Executive Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, are expected to be present in India’s capital when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the summit on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 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
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
It inaugurates His repose which is not the sign of His weariness, but of His having finished all which He was born to do.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
There’s now a Fat Marmot Week, a similar event inaugurated this year.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Bank Melli began operating in the U.A.E. in 1969, before statehood, and has two branches in Dubai, whose ruler inaugurated its first branch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
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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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
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
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