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institute

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




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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

Both leaders said they’d never heard of an abuser going to a staffer’s home or of someone in their position needing to institute personal security measures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Microsoft president Brad Smith recently told the BBC the institute had helped cement the UK as the country best-placed to drive forward global regulation.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Over a dozen large aftershocks, one above magnitude 6.0, were recorded by the local geosciences institute.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

When I began working at the institute, I recalled my adolescent dream of wanting to be a medical research worker.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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

But polling groups such as Datafolha, one of Brazil's most respected institutes, suggest that this election has been a battle of rejection rates.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

The company has also instituted new pricing moves early in the current quarter, including short-term capacity agreements, and these “are showing promise,” according to Volozh’s letter.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

And with the new departments were often instituted ‘community action’ programs.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

That demand-destruction scenario is already now playing out in several Asian countries, which have moved to curb crude consumption by instituting four-day workweeks, early office closures and other power-saving measures.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Google codified this by instituting “20% time”—work on anything you want—which produced Google News, Gmail and AdSense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 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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