institution
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The jury could have acquited her by reason of insanity, which would then send her to a mental institution, the duration of her stay determined by doctors.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
The question is whether the institution employing them is willing to defend its own independence, and in recent days there have been several notable answers.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Underneath the 300-year-old institution in central London sits about 400,000 bars worth more than £200bn.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
And he writes slyly of another institution that “was highly ranked for having the most student-friendly grade-change policy, nationwide, outside the Ivy League.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The whole structure of the Karhidish Clan-Hearths and Domains is indubitably based upon the institution of monogamous marriage.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Thirty-nine institutions of higher education and advanced research provided support to LZ.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
As war and work have faded, two new institutions have filled the void: bureaucratized schooling and digital media.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It lets institutions continue to support underprivileged students as long as those efforts use “race-neutral criteria such as family income, geographic location, first-generation status, individual hardship, military family status, or academic achievement.”
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
The IMF loan programme, economists say, provides a catalyst for financing from other institutions such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, private investors and others.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Their religion, their institutions, all of the things that shaped their culture came from Afrikaners.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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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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