institution
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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
ZSL said no other zoo or institution was known to keep the species.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The institution will also have to undergo an independent review of its programs for monitoring suspicious activity, and on other forms of due diligence.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Pelletier expected to find him attached to some grand institution, so he was astounded to discover him teaching elementary arithmetic to boys in a small school on a back street.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
Ostrover realized early that individual investors were crucial because they offered more growth potential than pensions and other institutions, which had invested for years in private credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
A 10-year Treasury yielding more than 5% starts looking awfully attractive to retirees, pension funds, insurers, foreign institutions and anyone else searching for dependable income.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Still, Kim acknowledged that trust in education has fallen, though he said that trust in American institutions “across the board has been declining.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The other type concerns the origin of good institutions.
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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