institutions

NOUN

organization, usually educational

Synonyms

WEAK

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NOUN

organization

Synonyms

STRONGEST

academy association business clinic company establishment foundation hospital institute school society system university

STRONG

asylum college conservatory fixture guild orphanage seminar seminary

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institutions

And their trust in big businesses and other institutions is near an all-time low, according to a new Gallup survey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The Education Department hasn’t yet calculated the final data against which institutions will be judged, leaving uncertainty on exactly what programs will face consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

“The mere prospect there could be a call is enough to chill agency heads,” Graham Steele, a former Treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions, told me.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Researchers from the Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Archaeology and several other institutions also contributed to the work.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis