kickoff

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Umber said that both the symphony and youth orchestra will return in “Beethoven 9,” the kickoff to “Celebrating Gustavo at the Bowl.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

It was the local chapter’s bimonthly meeting and also a kickoff event for a year during which they planned to build on an already impressive foothold in L.A. politics.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

The results follow Amgen’s October kickoff of its direct-to-patient program designed to lower the cost of drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

In the most ambitious boycott fantasies, the U.S. will somehow be canceled as host nation, only weeks before the tournament’s kickoff.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2026

“Ward meetings, v'oter registration, pamphlets, committees. We’ll start the kickoff rally around eightish. I’m on St. Peter Street, the yellow stucco building just off Royal. You can’t iuiss it. Here’s my card.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole