institution
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Your child will have to call the institution that holds the account to retitle everything under their own name, at which point the proverbial training wheels come off.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Staying carries its own risks for the institution Powell is trying to defend.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Indeed, as local media declined in the 21st century, the federal government was often the only institution proactively monitoring possible changes like these.
From Slate • May 1, 2026
Italian bank UniCredit wrote in a note that it did not "see the urgency" for the Frankfurt-based institution to act, particularly as inflation was around the ECB's target before the conflict.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
He recited the line from memory: “‘The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.’
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Vocabulary lists containing institution
Excerpts from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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