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institution

[in-sti-too-shuhn, -tyoo-] / ˌɪn stɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtju- /


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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

Irranca-Davies said his message for new Senedd members, elected in May, was that the "institution is at its best when we recognise that disagreement need not mean division".

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

UBS traces its history to 1862 and briefly became the world’s second-largest bank by assets when Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation merged to form the modern institution in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

The research was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Benjamin Simons and his team at the University of Cambridge, along with scientists from several other institutions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Public-sector organizations and financial institutions, in particular, are wary of using Chinese-made models, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

The clearest evidence for this view comes from pairs of countries that divide essentially the same environment but have very different institutions and, associated with those institutions, different per-capita GNPs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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