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initiate

Definition for initiate

verb as in teach

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James’s legal team has already signaled that it will seek to have the case dismissed on the grounds that the Justice Department initiated the prosecution for impermissible political reasons.

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“All my life,” he complains, “I seemed repeatedly to have been nudged to the side of things, even things that I had myself initiated.”

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Citi upgraded the stock to Buy and Well Fargo initiated coverage with a Buy rating, both citing expectations for higher copper prices.

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“No such federal investigation exists; no law enforcement agency has initiated any criminal proceedings or investigations related to racketeering charges against Ms. Kardashian or Ms. Jenner; and no credible evidence whatsoever supports these inflammatory allegations.”

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“They even initiated mixed-race individuals and people of other backgrounds — Chinese migrants, white Cubans — because this was about survival. The goal was to preserve something, to create something powerful and shared.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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