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institute

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




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The institute provided more than $12 million to support the study.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

"Ten years ago we made about six million vehicles a year and we've now stabilised at about four, 4.2 million," transport economist Thomas Puls of the IW economic institute in Cologne told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Nobel Prize recipient Omar Yaghi is leaving his role at UC Berkeley to lead the development of a new artificial intelligence institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Chinese university announced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Asked for comment on the book, an MIT spokesman sent a statement pointing out that high percentages of the school’s Jews now say they’re happy and feel safe at the institute.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

We institute a layaway plan so people can buy more expensive items in installments.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Specimens came to be used as teaching aids at universities or by research institutes.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

He also pointed to the inequity the institute is designed to address: At elite private universities with similar institutes, students benefit from informal access to former officeholders and well-funded internship and job pipelines.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Purchases or purchase orders by government-linked buyers — local governments, state-backed industrial parks, public research institutes, state-owned companies and government-funded demonstration projects — have soared.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

Whether civics institutes will support discourse across ideological lines or mimic the ideological conformity they decry remains to be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

After that night Met Bong institutes a new policy and we now take turns guarding the camp at night.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

The delays caused many to question why California, which has instituted a series of reforms in recent years designed to make voting easier and safer, lags behind other states in counting results.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The victory galvanized American forces, who instituted a naval blockade that resulted in a debilitating food shortage in Tripoli.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

Many tech giants have instituted layoffs as they decide they need fewer workers and more funding for AI.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has been opposed to the rule since it was instituted in 2005, when he was a commissioner who voted against it alongside a fellow Republican appointee.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

The bantustan system was nevertheless instituted; the voters had opposed it, but participated in it simply by voting.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

From Salon May 18, 2026

The company is now instituting governance practices to prevent too many AI agents from providing conflicting results for the same problem.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 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

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has said the manufacturing powerhouse, the world's eighth-largest consumer of crude oil, is moving towards instituting fuel price caps to alleviate pressure on the country's energy supply.

From Barron's Mar. 9, 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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