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[in-duhkt] / ɪnˈdʌkt /


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The carrier was expected to induct dozens of new planes to its fleet, but deliveries are running late because of supply chain shortages, which has upended the replacement schedule.

From BBC May 12, 2026

I stand by all of this—until the unlikely event someone wants to induct me into a Hall of Fame, in which case I think it’s a fabulous idea, thank you.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

It’s an anticlimactic return that feels more intended to scrub the remaining tarnish from her image than it does to induct her back into Vanderpump’s fold.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2025

But today, if you’re going to go in who would you want to induct you?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2023

The Philadelphia Inquirer once named him its high school athlete of the week, and Holy Ghost would induct him into its sports hall of fame.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The Gorsedd inducts new members each year who have contributed to Welsh life.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2024

The Toy Hall of Fame inducts a new class of toys each year in a ceremony at The Strong museum in Rochester, where the hall is housed.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2022

Occasionally the Hall inducts a true rock artist, for example, Pat Benatar, but increasingly that’s a happy accident.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2022

After a trip upward in a glass elevator, a team leader inducts the kids into the Exceptional Explorers Society.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2019

Lighting a small lantern he leads the way across a stone-paved yard, and, opening one leaf of the folding-doors of a stable at its upper end, inducts me at once into the interior. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

ZZ Top, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, has continued touring throughout North America, Europe and South America.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

“It’s crazy when Phil Spector produces your record and you still don’t have a top ten record,” Eddie Vedder mentioned when he inducted the Ramones into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

His feats as a coach and administrator earned him a place in Australia's sports hall of fame, where he was inducted in 1989.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

"You find a tutoring relationship, one in which Musk is inducted into their talking points," says Ben Tarnoff, co-author of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

His youth and slight frame reminded Cora of the engineer of her last train trip, inducted by circumstance into the work of men.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Perhaps most striking of all was how many female volunteers brought along their young daughters, inducting new generations of women into anticolonial politics.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

When it came to Fogerty, Springsteen didn’t mince words while inducting one of American music’s most prolific singer-songwriters.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2025

It’s like inducting Mike Trout into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2023

Cleveland State University plans to further honor Newman in November by inducting him into the law school’s hall of fame.

From Seattle Times Mar. 29, 2023

It was unsuccessful at first; but later, catching a glimpse of Elinor at the piano, and another of Penelope inducting an up-country legislator into the mysteries of social small-talk, he breathed freer.

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde




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