initiation
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Hong Kong-listed InSilico is set to receive an initial $60 million in project initiation fees and near-term payments, and is eligible for milestone payments as well as tiered royalties on future sales, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
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
If conflict in Dauntless ends with only one person standing, I am unsure of what this part of initiation will do to me.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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
This also matches my interpretation of a lot of Africanist practices, where, during initiations, you are on your own individual search.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 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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