institutionalize
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Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund, is famous for striving to institutionalize “radical honesty” over social hierarchy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
However, the tolling system would institutionalize rather than solve the friction.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
Voladores also grapple with how much they should seek to commercialize and institutionalize their culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
"The task is to solidify and institutionalize it," Feldman said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2023
These hospitals are no longer mentioned after the dissolution of the London Company, nor were any other comparable measures taken during the century to institutionalize care for the sick.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
In a nutshell, the federal complaint is that our state institutionalizes too many children, sometimes out of state and far from their families.
From Washington Times ● May 22, 2019
He is famous for his scathing critiques against the art world, particularly against art education, which he believes institutionalizes mediocrity through its systematic rejection of good ideas.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2013
It’s played for laughs, but the way the medical establishment institutionalizes her so quickly carries a harsh edge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2010
Indexing, which automatically raises wages and pensions along with the price index, is not a cure but a disease that institutionalizes inflation, added Okun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Man's genius for organization institutionalizes every aspect of thought and activity he takes under his control.
From The Family and it's Members by Anna Garlin Spencer
The words are literally institutionalized, engraved on a bell at the UC Santa Barbara campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Resurrectionists” – body snatchers – exhumed the recently buried, disproportionately targeting the poor, the institutionalized and those without family protection or the financial means to guard graves.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It might actually be worse because there’s nothing institutionalized about any of this.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
It would set a global precedent, potentially inviting countries around the world to impose similar fees on trade through global chokepoints—a form of institutionalized piracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
I stand there, my grin turning to stone, institutionalized.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Magnetar was really me taking the uncertainty side of what I learned at Citadel and institutionalizing it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
“The only question to my mind is what sort of deal Iran can work out in terms of monetizing and institutionalizing its control of the strait.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Analysts suggest China’s move is noteworthy, institutionalizing its export control system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
“They’re still out there institutionalizing children with little to no oversight or regulation.”
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024
The bantustan system had been conceived by Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, the minister of native affairs, as a way of muting international criticism of South African racial policies but at the same time institutionalizing apartheid.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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