usher in
verb
ushered in; ushering in; ushers in
1
: to serve to bring into being
a discovery that ushered in a period of change
2
: to mark or observe the beginning of
ushered in the new year with merrymaking
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The rain will start to clear out Sunday evening as the front moves through and begins to usher in drier, but cooler temperatures for next week.
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Bill Kelly, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
An uneasy balance The concentration of power around one figure sits uneasily with one of the founding impulses of the 1979 revolution that ushered in the Islamic Republic.
—Roxane Razavi, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Because there’s no telling how many times this bell will ring before changes are ushered in.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
The frontier myth—and its core belief that the West belonged only to white Americans—had become a national ideology by the 1880s and ’90s, ushering in an age of oppression and migration restriction.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
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Bill Kelly, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
An uneasy balance The concentration of power around one figure sits uneasily with one of the founding impulses of the 1979 revolution that ushered in the Islamic Republic.
—Roxane Razavi, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
Because there’s no telling how many times this bell will ring before changes are ushered in.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
The frontier myth—and its core belief that the West belonged only to white Americans—had become a national ideology by the 1880s and ’90s, ushering in an age of oppression and migration restriction.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
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