Sample Sentences for
induction
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induction as in:  induction into the club

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    His induction into the Hall of Fame took place at last night's ceremony.
    induction = formal admission
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    Her induction into the army came just after her 18th birthday.
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    A sign over a row of wide bay doors read IOI INDENTURED EMPLOYEE INDUCTION CENTER.  (source)
    INDUCTION = admission into an organization
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    She smiled at me in a way that made me feel I was about to get Part Two of the beekeeper's induction, Part One being the sting.  (source)
    induction = admission (into an organization)
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    Another article reported that at the Japanese Community Center hall in Amity Harbor a reception had been held for Robert Sakamura, who'd been inducted into the army.  (source)
    inducted = formally admitted
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    Any more and you might just as well induct him into the Order straightaway.  (source)
    induct = ceremoniously admit (into an organization)
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    Mark copied the names of the new inductees in 1967 on a sheet of paper but the troubled, deeply melancholy expression remained on his face.†  (source)
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    Newman Noggs inducts Mrs and Miss Nickleby into their New Dwelling in the City†  (source)
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    The rite of passage for a new SEAL involved one more initiation ceremony for full induction into this fraternity of warriors—an unofficial one.  (source)
    induction = formal admission
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    Alpha Phi Alpha, a black fraternity, inducted new members earlier tonight, and the freshly minted brothers, most of them shirtless, charge the room with a raw physicality.  (source)
    inducted = admitted ceremoniously into an organization
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    Papa talked him out of volunteering; Woody waited for the army to induct him.†  (source)
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    Some alumni told me they heard the inductees were enrolled athomecoming, others insisted on Corps Day.†  (source)
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    This is Werner's induction into the Wehrmacht.  (source)
    induction = formal admission
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induction as in:  electromagnetic induction

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    Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction in the 1830s.
    induction = process producing an effect
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    The scientist explained the induction of an electric current by moving a magnet through a coil of wire.
    induction = causing something to begin
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    Then, executing the last of the instructions I'd programmed into it two days earlier, SD-03 lifted the antimatter friction-induction bomb up over its head and detonated it.  (source)
    induction = triggering
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    "Pain by nerve induction," she said.  (source)
    induction = triggering
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    A word of five letters, Langdon thought, pondering the staggering number of ancient words that might be considered words of wisdom—selections from mystic chants, astrological prophecies, secret society inductions, Wicca incantations, Egyptian magic spells, pagan mantras—the list was endless.†  (source)
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    Fields and circuits, conduction and induction.  (source)
    induction = generation of electric current by a changing magnetic field
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    I have been fortunate enough to receive many honors and recognition during my life, but I hold four inductions to be the most important: the Latin American Hall of Fame in Laredo, Texas; the Tec de Monterrey Hall of Fame; the Mexican Baseball League Hall of Fame, and finally the Williamsport: Hall of Excellence, where I am the first Mexican to be so honored.†  (source)
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    Melekhin, you may open the main induction and vent the engine spaces, then start the diesel.  (source)
    induction = causing an effect
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    If it was a question of a scare, my discovery on this occasion had scared me more than any other, and it was in the condition of nerves produced by it that I made my actual inductions.†  (source)
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    As it exited the armory, one antimatter friction-induction bomb was subtracted from the Sixers' computerized inventory.  (source)
    induction = triggering
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    You will say that I was puzzled; but, if you think so, you must have misunderstood the nature of the inductions.†  (source)
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    They partially beat that with a new kind of electric induction motor, I think, but even then you'd end up with a lot of extraneous machinery inside the hull.  (source)
    induction = causing an effect
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    Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,—About a prophecy which says that G Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.†  (source)
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