as in inaugurates
to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies
the new secretary of the treasury was instated on Monday
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In theory, this transition inaugurates a chapter of enfranchisement, but in the next scene the Senegalese businessmen are in suits, and the white men return with briefcases full of money as bribes.—
Lovia Gyarkye, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2025
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The contract establishes minimum wage rates for daily and weekly work and inducts intimacy coordinators into the union health and pension plans.—
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Stifel initiates Cardinal Infrastructure Group as buy Stifel said shares of the civil construction company are best positioned.—
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From there, Aescape initiates a personalized massage using the body scan.—
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Using prompt engineering, attackers get ChatGPT to generate a step-by-step cleanup or installation guide that actually installs malware.—
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If the neighborhood clears all those hurdles, the city installs the bumps.—
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“Instates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instates. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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