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inaugurated

  • past participle
    of inaugurate.
    inaugurate
    verb (used with object)
    to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin.
  • past tense form
    of inaugurate.
    inaugurate
    verb (used with object)
    to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin.

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“There’s just been too much to do,” Roy said of the chrome gel ritual she inaugurated as a volunteer for Eunisses Hernandez in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and a Chinese military delegation inaugurated a joint logistics and training centre there last year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

In 1964, Paul VI inaugurated the traveling papacy when he became the first pontiff to leave Italy since Pius VII was carted off to France at gunpoint by Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers in 1809.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

In January, Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as the first Muslim mayor of the very city that was ground zero for al-Qaida’s attacks.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

There was the Piscine des Tourelles, of course, the city’s other great Olympic pool, inaugurated during the second Paris games, of 1924.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel