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noun as in something new; something that begins

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addition, debut, establishment, inauguration, influx, initiation, installation, launch, opening, preface, presentation

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admittance, awakening, baptism, beginning, commencement, essentials, exordium, foreword, hornbook, inception, induction, ingress, insertion, institution, interpolation, intro, lead, lead-in, overture, preamble, preliminaries, prelude, primer, prolegomenon, prologue, survey

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Example Sentences

As Bruce Buffer did his introductions, Aspinall got to his feet, before Jones opened the contest with a stinging left hand.

Scottish Power, which owns SP Energy Networks, said it hoped "the people of Glasgow enjoyed their brief introduction to the beauty of this wonderful language".

So, like, mistakes: Bono stumbled over some of his banter in the introductions, and he wanted to keep that in.

It comes as festival organisers announced last week a huge change to its ticket booking process, with the introduction of an automatic queue system.

The two-year course combines study with career experience and is equivalent to three A-levels, but there have been issues with the introduction of new subjects, and concerns about the quality of teaching delivered.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.