institution
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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
Options under discussion include buying a U.S. financial institution, merging with a European rival or selling itself to a U.S. firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
Investors submitted $2.77 in bids for every $1 of bonds available, while indirect bidders, a category that includes foreign institutions, absorbed more than 80% of the offering.
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
"Most of them have had their employers and higher education institutions take adverse actions against them, including being placed on leave."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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