Example Sentences

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Thus the plan: The U.S. was initiating a “strict quarantine” on military equipment being shipped to Cuba.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

The Toulouse prosecutor's office told AFP their financial crime division was initiating an investigation into "the conditions surrounding the creation and execution of the contract concluded between Toulouse and the company Pacific Heart."

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

The department also said it was initiating an investigation to determine “whether processes and procedures were followed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2025

Conley had the offense running crisply and craftily whenever he was initiating.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

There she stopped, blew out a volume of smoke, grinned half amusedly, half in sympathy with the innocence she was protecting—or, rather, was initiating by cautious degrees.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham