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institute

[in-sti-toot, -tyoot] / ˈɪn stɪˌtut, -ˌtjut /




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A Datalfolha institute poll this week showed them tied with 50 percent of voting intentions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

As part of Wednesday's Budget, the government will commit £100m to establishing the new, "world first" institute with the support of leading AI firms.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The BlackRock Investment Institute has adjusted its positioning on U.S. equities a “handful of times” in recent years, mostly between overweight and neutral, a spokesman for the institute said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The institute is partly industry-funded, including by the OpenAI Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Osborne began to institute familiar reforms but found Sing Sing more complicated than Auburn.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Leading economic institutes recently upgraded their growth forecasts for the Germany economy for 2026 to 1.3 percent, saying it had weathered the fallout from the Iran war better than feared.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

A group of major German economic research institutes recently hiked forecasts for economic growth this year to 1.3%, almost doubling its prior forecast made in March, driven by strong exports and a robust manufacturing sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

This week, leading economic institutes raised the country's growth forecasts for 2026 and 2027 above 1% while illegal entries into Germany – and Europe – are down year on year.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The company told me that it’s “pleased with the analysis” and added, “we regularly provide data to credible and verified third-party research firms and institutes to ensure accuracy and factual representation in any public reporting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

He runs the new neuroimaging lab at the University of California at San Francisco, one of the world’s leading scientific institutes.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

When spending cuts were instituted in summer of 2025—as business was still booming—executives in other parts of the business blamed the private-wealth division.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Both Florida and Alabama instituted mandatory evacuations due to the storm.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But recently, they instituted a “cold call rule” allowing them to call each other anytime, day or night, without texting first.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

He noted that the $100 price hikes on newer and earlier-generation phones came in below the $150 to $200 increases on iPad and MacBooks instituted this summer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

I intervened in this piece of charming youthful désespoir; countering that some philosophers say governments were instituted to protect the natural rights of the citizen; to which Octavian said that nature recognizes no rights.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The White House has stopped short of instituting mandatory regulations, instead calling prerelease testing voluntary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

On top of that, he pointed out that Micron has been instituting long-term agreements, which lock in contracts with customers to sell capacity in advance and can limit volatility down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

But there are significant practical problems even with doing that, let alone instituting a sweeping new civic contract.

From Salon ● May 18, 2026

The state government established what was called a “concurrency doctrine,” instituting strict requirements for infrastructure development—water, sewer, schooling—that had to be established before construction permits were granted.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Once it was gone, he was glad to be rid of it, for he had been troubled from the start by the danger of instituting the plan without first checking it out with Colonel Korn.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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