initiation
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The recent deal comes after Yum! announced “the initiation of a formal review of strategic options” for Pizza Hut back in Nov. 2025.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
But Wall Street is backing the company to make a comeback with a raft of initiation notes on Monday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
First, though, he gave Daniel Harding a proper L.A. initiation by taking the British conductor and soccer fan to a Dodger game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
It responded after Netanyahu and his foreign minister issued a statement saying they had ordered the "initiation of a defamation lawsuit".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
"Did Tariq Johnson rob the convenience store? Was it some kind of initiation?"
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
The initiations from JPMorgan, Bank of America, KeyBanc Capital Markets, and Jefferies frame Forgent as a play on one of the tightest bottlenecks in the AI buildout: electrical distribution equipment.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
In Candomblé, which mixes Yoruba, Fon and Bantu beliefs, initiations typically require people to remain secluded for around 21 days: “I had no way of contacting the outside world.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Neither John Smith nor Powhatan understood or accepted their initiations.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
I put to her that if this is her logic, then initiations for her are more about cold hard cash than ancient traditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2016
“Well, yeah. You’ve got one of the worst initiations, and there’s that whole old-age thing.”
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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