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[in-duhkt] / ɪnˈdʌkt /


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I stand by all of this—until the unlikely event someone wants to induct me into a Hall of Fame, in which case I think it’s a fabulous idea, thank you.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

In the end, both Oasis and Carey were overlooked last year - with voters choosing to induct Cher, Mary J Blige, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest instead.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2025

Following Browne’s spirited rendition of his 1977 hit “Running on Empty,” Springsteen took the stage to induct Mellencamp into the American Music Honors.

From Salon Apr. 25, 2024

Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced that the team would waive the four-year waiting period and induct Brady into the franchise hall of fame next summer.

From Seattle Times Sep. 10, 2023

No patrollers, no bosses, no cries of anguish to induct her into another’s despair.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

The Gorsedd inducts new members each year who have contributed to Welsh life.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2024

Occasionally the Hall inducts a true rock artist, for example, Pat Benatar, but increasingly that’s a happy accident.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2022

After a trip upward in a glass elevator, a team leader inducts the kids into the Exceptional Explorers Society.

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2019

It hasn’t been easy lately for coaches to get into the Hall, which inducts no more than eight people per year.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2016

Besides, it inducts an infant into clean habits, I know many careful mothers who have accustomed their children, after the first three months, to do without diapers altogether.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

These milestones were the culmination of Parks' tireless lobbying; the debt to him was formally acknowledged in 2010 when he became the first wheelchair athlete to be inducted into tennis' Hall of Fame.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

I got to induct the first managers inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Brian Epstein and Andrew Loog Oldham — the Beatles and the Stones.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

He was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 but only in a 5-minute segment as part of a 2-for-1 deal with Mr. Oldham.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Taylor Swift made an emotional 21-minute speech in which she tearfully thanked her family as she made history by becoming the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

In November 1966, he was inducted into the army and the following April was sent to Vietnam.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

You get a lot of people saying, “Well, they’re not rock ’n’ roll” — inducting Salt-N-Pepa, for example.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

Perhaps most striking of all was how many female volunteers brought along their young daughters, inducting new generations of women into anticolonial politics.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

When it came to Fogerty, Springsteen didn’t mince words while inducting one of American music’s most prolific singer-songwriters.

From Salon Apr. 28, 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to change that by inducting Manouchian into the Panthéon national monument on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times Feb. 20, 2024

The wire of the inducting current is wound directly around this core.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various




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