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Estimated completion of the initial phase is not until 2031.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

SpaceX shares are trading above their initial public offering price for the first time in nearly a month.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

EagleRock, another firm that sits on a vast land domain, raised $320 million from an initial public offering earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service said it had received more than 160 emergency calls reporting the initial vehicle fire.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Ocasio-Cortez, widely known by her initials AOC, burst onto the national political scene with an upset congressional victory in 2018 and rapidly became a leading voice of the Democratic Party's left wing.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The United Arab Emirates reported there was no local transmission when the patient, known by his initials M.S., was there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The former leader, known by his initials JOH, returned home on July 26, nearly eight months after Trump issued his shock pardon that overturned Hernandez's 45-year prison sentence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Each ends with the coach’s initials, similar to the way a painter signs his portraits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

The initials are those of Hunley commander George Dixon, who led the attack on the Housatonic.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

During his summation, Steinglass pointed to a document that had been initialed by Trump and called it “explicit” proof of his knowing that his executives were tinkering with expenses to reduce their tax liabilities.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022

He testified to purchasing a car for $3,500 and initialed a blank sales agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

A small auction house in Massachusetts offered it for sale as a “an unidentified gentleman, initialed I.L., and dated 1652,” with an estimate of $200 to $300.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

Saint Laurent’s invite was pure luxury: A black leather wallet — initialed with the name of the respective guest — with YSL embossed in gold metal on the front.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2022

Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He reminded the jury of that evidence, including a memo the former president initialled authorising a pay cut for another executive for the exact amount of his perk, rent paid by the company.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

Medinsky said Russia had made a second major de-escalatory step by agreeing to a possible meeting of the two countries’ presidents at the same moment that a peace agreement was initialled.

From Reuters ● Mar. 29, 2022

Pages initialled by "DC" set out how the single market, due to start in 1992, would help business, workers, consumers, savers, holidaymakers.

From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2019

President Mohamed Mursi's government initialled an IMF deal in November but postponed ratification in December due to unrest ignited by a political row over the extent of Mursi's powers.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2013

“That is correct, Monsieur. My handkerchiefs are always initialled in the Russian characters. H is N in Russian.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Sometimes, I think back to initialing the bark, or nailing a plank of wood into the trunk, or breaking a branch by accident.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

Scott McDonell, the Dane County clerk, said the man is a poll worker, and the video shows him initialing ballots before they were handed out to voters.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

He was initialing ballots to be handed out to voters, a standard procedure mandated by state law, according to the county clerk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

But he turned out to be a poll worker in Wisconsin conducting the standard procedure of initialing ballots for voters.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

I've done a lot of initialing, but they don't look really well until they have been washed.'

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

Miss Belmont stooped at the table, and when Mr. Berry entered he found her initialling the pay-sheet.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

The earlier taste still ruled in initialling and border decorations; but little flowers were added by degrees to the thorn-leaf pattern, and birds, sometimes angels, introduced.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

Lawless had acted on an impulse in initialling her programme as he had done—a recurrence, even though slight, of the old midsummer madness.

From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills

This is the Epeira’s trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation. 

From The Life of the Spider by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

This is the Epeira's trade-mark, the flourish of an artist initialling his creation.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander