initiate
verb (used with object)
to begin, set going, or originate.
were initiating
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past progressiveof initiate.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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Binance.US staff referred to the transfers to Merit Peak as "withdrawals," messages show, because Binance.com employees were initiating them.
From Reuters ● Feb. 16, 2023
Jesse Coffee, a wealth adviser at True Private Wealth Advisers, said that before the pandemic, it was generally clients around age 62 who were initiating pre-retirement talks with him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2021
Did the drafting of Christian mean the Redskins were initiating the search for his successor?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2019
Burbank police said they would continue to monitor the situation, but that their police and fire departments were initiating a demobilization plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2017
Enthusiastic speeches were made and Mr. Braly said that they were initiating this movement at the psychological time, for the progressive fever was in the California blood.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
