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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of induct.

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Examples

  • Sabero Organics inducts board members from Coromandel

    Deals India: Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011

  • MUMBAI – Air India Ltd. said Tuesday its board has decided to lease out two Boeing 747-400s and some 777-200 long-range planes after it inducts the Boeing Dreamliner aircraft.

    Air India to Sell and Lease Back Dreamliners Eric Yep 2011

  • Based in New York City, with a new dedicated gallery in Los Angeles at the GRAMMY Museum, each year the SHoF inducts those deemed deserving and also has an awards gala.

    Ellen Sterling: Jimmy Webb: Still Making the Music That Will Likely Last Forever Ellen Sterling 2011

  • If we accept that juvie inducts young people into a culture which valorizes crime, surely there are other ways they could be inducted into the same culture — and perhaps those other ways would become more prominent if juvie were not there to scoop up many obvious candidates.

    More Punishment, More Crime 2009

  • His government denies voters their rights, brutalizes the opposition, censors the press, abuses women, inducts children into the army, and criminalizes homosexuality.

    The NBA's Dirty Partner 2010

  • Jude Law and Forest Whitaker toil through a tale lacking in imagination and overloaded with violence, says Philip French In Alex Cox's memorable 1984 debut, Repo Man, Harry Dean Stanton inducts Emilio Estevez into the business of repossessing automobiles from their defaulting owners in Los Angeles.

    Repo Men 2010

  • His government denies voters their rights, brutalizes the opposition, censors the press, abuses women, inducts children into the army, and criminalizes homosexuality.

    Toby Barlow: The NBA's Dirty Partner 2010

  • Because he's the one who teaches and inducts so many of the young heros.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • As baseball inducts slugger Andre Dawson, umpire Doug Harvey and manager Whitey Herzog into its Hall of Fame at ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, the glaring absence of Marvin Miller, the first executive director of the players 'union, and Curt Flood, the baseball pioneer who challenged the sport's feudal system, reminds us of the narrow parochialism and conservatism of baseball's current establishment.

    Peter Dreier: Baseball Justice 2010

  • As baseball inducts slugger Andre Dawson, umpire Doug Harvey and manager Whitey Herzog into its Hall of Fame at ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York on Sunday, the glaring absence of Marvin Miller, the first executive director of the players 'union, and Curt Flood, the baseball pioneer who challenged the sport's feudal system, reminds us of the narrow parochialism and conservatism of baseball's current establishment.

    Peter Dreier: Baseball Justice 2010

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