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An example use of inaugural in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… while an inaugural event by taylor swift …”
Inaugural means the first of a series of events.
the word inaugural occurs in english on average 3.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.