inception
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Incurring national debt, which the country has done since its inception, can help Uncle Sam pay for necessary services and investments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The program has generated more than $36 billion in revenue since its inception, and the money goes to support affordable housing, wildfire resilience, clean drinking water, the high-speed rail and other projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
"We further call on the secretary of state to instigate a long overdue comprehensive examination of the commission's internal decision-making processes, which since its inception, have often lacked credibility, accountability and transparency."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It felt like he was being hunted,” says John Pfeffer, co-founder of Pfeffer Capital, a family office that has invested in Situational since its inception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ken Scates, who had religiously followed the team since its inception in 1959, couldn’t remember a time when everyone had been so upset.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
While Fleiss has been the face of the “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette” and other spinoffs since the shows’ inceptions, trade publications report he hasn’t led day-to-day operations in around a decade.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
Open—has been intimately involved in both projects since their inceptions earlier in the decade.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 3, 2018
This early phase, from its earliest inceptions in the 1960s until 2000, is what J.G. Palfrey, the former executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, calls the Open Internet.
From The Verge ● Apr. 13, 2016
Performance of the funds hasn’t kept up with the market, trailing their benchmarks since their inceptions.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 13, 2012
Out of the cloud that hangs around the vague inceptions of revolutions, a startling incident will sometimes flash like lightning, to show that the warring elements have begun their work.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
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"The Hill We Climb," by Amanda Gorman
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