institution
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Later that month, Combs was transferred to the federal correctional institution at Fort Dix in New Jersey, where he had been serving out his sentence until his transfer on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Bruch feverishly sketched out elaborate plans for the new institution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
That means you can have decades of spotless credit in America and still be a ghost to a financial institution in another country.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Director Tran Trung Thanh told AFP the state institution had acquired and developed "a world-first process for handling remains that have undergone severe degradation".
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
And getting in touch with them would have meant taking me away or putting Momma in some institution someplace.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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Additionally, the law includes sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, senior figures within the Russian government as well as banks and other financial institutions and Russia's "shadow fleet" of tankers used to circumvent existing sanctions.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The SSA also offers international direct deposit into financial institutions in many countries.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Many of the nation’s most elite institutions have recently turned away from test-blind or test-optional admission policies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Central banks are buying gold on infrastructure that already exists; institutions are buying bitcoin on infrastructure still being built—the same debasement logic, two different stages.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The political, economic, and social institutions most familiar to us today are those of states, which now rule all of the world’s land area except for Antarctica.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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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