initiated

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Initiated by an organization called the Film Workers of Palestine, the boycott now has more than 5,000 signatories, including Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Joaquin Phoenix, Ava DuVernay and Mark Ruffalo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

Initiated by voters and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in his first term, the 1976 Coastal Act was a response to unregulated shoreline development.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Initiated by these Italian nationalists who sought to eliminate Austrian control, the unification cause received powerful support from King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont-Sardinia and his prime minister Count Camillo di Cavour.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Initiated in 2018, the Dog Aging Project recruits pet owners nationwide and asks them to complete detailed questionnaires about their dogs’ lives, health and dementia symptoms.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2022

Why, then, you ask, if they were so pure and full of meaning, why was not such a man as Socrates one of the Initiated?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various