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[in-duhkt] / ɪnˈdʌkt /


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The carrier was expected to induct dozens of new planes to its fleet, but deliveries are running late because of supply chain shortages, which has upended the replacement schedule.

From BBC May 12, 2026

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

Well, although the primary goal of the hall is to each year induct the most deserving candidates, we do look at where we’re going.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

It’s an anticlimactic return that feels more intended to scrub the remaining tarnish from her image than it does to induct her back into Vanderpump’s fold.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2025

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

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducts a songwriter every third year alongside the artist inductions.

From Seattle Times Apr. 3, 2023

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

Yet when the Baseball Hall of Fame inducts him next Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y.,

From New York Times Jul. 22, 2017

And presently Sir Henry, referring to the ring, made this suggestion: "Suppose we seal it up, and see whether it inducts the sound then as well as when exposed."

From The Blind Spot by Austin Hall

In 1999, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame; in 2001, into the Songwriters Hall of Fame; and in 2005, she received the National Medal of Arts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

He was in the first class inducted into the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Smith also implied that instead of being hammered by the NABJ, he should be celebrated because he is about to be inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

“It’s crazy when Phil Spector produces your record and you still don’t have a top ten record,” Eddie Vedder mentioned when he inducted the Ramones into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Another article reported that at the Japanese Community Center hall in Amity Harbor a reception had been held for Robert Sakamura, who’d been inducted into the army.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

“There are few finer songwriters, male or female, that have ever lived,” said the pop singer Pink in her 2022 speech inducting Parton into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 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

It’s like inducting Mike Trout into the Baseball Hall of Fame this year.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2023

The motion of the button has not for effect, as might be believed, the closing of the circuit of the pile upon the inducting circuit of the bobbin.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various




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