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as in inauguration
the process or an instance of being formally placed in an office or organization the installation of a new president takes place once every four years

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as in facility
a structure that is designed and built for a particular purpose a massive installation that supplies the electrical power needs for the entire state

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Recent Examples of installation Greenland became a key location for early-warning networks and today is home to the northernmost U.S. military installation, Pituffik Space Force Base, which holds a substantial portion of the global network's missile warning sensors and space surveillance sensors. Liz Friden, Fox News, 9 Jan. 2025 His office did not respond to requests by the Washington Examiner for comment on the art installation. Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Jan. 2025 While the Salvadorans will be tasked with carrying out casualty and medical evacuations, Guatemala’s military in a post on X said its military police will be engaged in providing security to military installations and doing traffic control. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025 Metro launched its barrier installation project in 2022 and retrofitted a small number of buses in 2023. Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for installation 
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  • Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week.
    ESSENCE Staff, Essence, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Past inauguration performers have included Lady Gaga, Garth Brooks and Jennifer Lopez at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, and Beyoncé and Kelly Clarkson at former President Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • The conditions at the Arizona Cardinals’ training facility offered a stark contrast to what the Rams faced a few days earlier, when smoke from wildfires billowed during practice at their facility in Woodland Hills.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
  • This facility is used by both Amtrak and NJT for midday and overnight storage to position equipment for rush hour and off peak service.
    Larry Penner, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2025
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  • There were only 25 completed by the first Trump inaugural in 2017, when Ms. Wiles was not in the administration.
    Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Google has donated to inaugurals in the past, and the YouTube livestream and link to the inauguration on Google’s homepage are in line with previous inaugurations, a spokesperson said.
    Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
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  • Since these deal initiations typically take six to nine months to finalize, a surge of new deal announcements is expected to unfold in the first half of 2025.
    Rusty Wiley, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A) is a protein that helps cells efficiently make other proteins, playing a key role in two translation stages: initiation and elongation (helping ribosomes move along the mRNA and add amino acids to the protein chain).
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Jan. 2025

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“Installation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/installation. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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