inaugurate
verb (used with object)
inaugurates
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present tense formof inaugurate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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With “Costume Art,” the exhibition that inaugurates a sweeping first-floor two-gallery space created for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the museum has made a milestone statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
The show inaugurates the new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
“Americans in Paris” inaugurates the university’s relocated and renamed art space; it has moved from Washington Square, where it was known as the Grey Art Gallery, several blocks east, to Cooper Square.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Thursday, UC San Diego formally inaugurates the Human Milk Institute, the first academic institution in the U.S. devoted to a crucial element of human nutrition that science is, in many ways, only beginning to understand.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
One seems to meet this vague principle, this reverend Thing, in Shelley's Demogorgon, the shapeless, awful negation which overthrows the maleficent Jupiter, and with his fall inaugurates the golden age.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
