augural

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Murphy, winner of the augural Players Tour Championship two weeks ago, had been widely tipped to go all the way in China having disposed of top-ranked John Higgins in the quarter-finals.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2011

Shultz may have laid the Falklands ghost to rest during a private meeting with another in augural guest: Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raul Alfonsin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pursuant to my promise I send you by mail with this, the Eagle Penholder and pen with which I have written my in augural address.

From Time Magazine Archive

Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having fallen a victim to these in the augural banquet at the house of Lentulus, I was seized with a violent diarrhœa, which, I think, has been checked to-day for the first time.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.