institutionalize
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“I speculate he saw that note or somehow figured out she was going to institutionalize him, but I have no idea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Also welcome is a push to institutionalize drones and other unmanned tech into U.S. military planning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
However, the tolling system would institutionalize rather than solve the friction.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
"The task is to solidify and institutionalize it," Feldman said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 30, 2023
Over the next four years the Coalition implemented a number of key reforms to modernize the economy and institutionalize democratic reforms.
From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
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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
But the siblings worried about Walker’s mental health, and agreed he needed to be institutionalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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
They set up a formal commission to go out and study institutionalized racism all over the world.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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Magnetar was really me taking the uncertainty side of what I learned at Citadel and institutionalizing it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
These approaches risk institutionalizing the wrong labor-market model precisely when flexibility and organizational adaptation matter most.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Analysts suggest China’s move is noteworthy, institutionalizing its export control system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
The Supreme Court has ruled that institutionalizing people with disabilities who could live in the community is discriminatory if a community placement “can be reasonably accommodated.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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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