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initiation

[ih-nish-ee-ey-shuhn] / ɪˌnɪʃ iˈeɪ ʃən /


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The recent deal comes after Yum! announced “the initiation of a formal review of strategic options” for Pizza Hut back in Nov. 2025.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

First, though, he gave Daniel Harding a proper L.A. initiation by taking the British conductor and soccer fan to a Dodger game.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

The initiation alone doesn’t fully explain the stock’s upward momentum.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

It responded after Netanyahu and his foreign minister issued a statement saying they had ordered the "initiation of a defamation lawsuit".

From BBC May 15, 2026

As soon as Nina had described the drüskelle initiation ritual, he’d known: The Fjerdan stronghold hadn’t been built around a great tree but around a spring.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

The initiations from JPMorgan, Bank of America, KeyBanc Capital Markets, and Jefferies frame Forgent as a play on one of the tightest bottlenecks in the AI buildout: electrical distribution equipment.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

The practices of the cult are obscure and difficult to reconstruct, but it seems that initiations took place in a cave.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

This also matches my interpretation of a lot of Africanist practices, where, during initiations, you are on your own individual search.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2022

I put to her that if this is her logic, then initiations for her are more about cold hard cash than ancient traditions.

From BBC Nov. 19, 2016

They remember what it felt like when they were young, and they remember their own initiations.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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