- past tense form of institutionalize.
- past participle of institutionalize.
institutionalized
Example Sentences
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The words are literally institutionalized, engraved on a bell at the UC Santa Barbara campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
But compared to the buttoned-up, institutionalized dealmaking within the NFL and the NBA, the NIL world still looks like a scramble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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
I stand there, my grin turning to stone, institutionalized.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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