inaugurate
verb (used with object)
was inaugurating
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past progressiveof inaugurate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His band, U2, was inaugurating Sphere, a hyperstimulating new performance venue in which the whole exterior is a screen, and essentially the whole interior as well.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2023
About this same time the Paris Review was inaugurating its celebrated “Writers at Work” interviews.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2016
The police in Frankfurt used tear gas today against demonstrators outside the European Central Bank, which was inaugurating its new headquarters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2015
This sort of programming was standard in Mozart's day, and Leppard was inaugurating the bicentennial by re-creating a concert that Mozart himself had presented in 1783.
From Time Magazine Archive
I glanced at my orderly, who was inaugurating an onset upon the weaker side of this mean battery, or ditch-work,—and who evidently counted upon effecting a breach by rapid, electric charges,—by handing over his pistol.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
