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institute

[in-sti-toot, -tyoot] / ˈɪn stɪˌtut, -ˌtjut /




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The BlackRock Investment Institute has adjusted its positioning on U.S. equities a “handful of times” in recent years, mostly between overweight and neutral, a spokesman for the institute said in emailed comments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Both leaders said they’d never heard of an abuser going to a staffer’s home or of someone in their position needing to institute personal security measures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Microsoft president Brad Smith recently told the BBC the institute had helped cement the UK as the country best-placed to drive forward global regulation.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Reports that a woman employed at a plague research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died from the disease has spiked online interest in possible treatments for the illness in North America.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The woman had had a child, and her boyfriend did not want to marry her; she was seeking to institute an action against him.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Leading economic institutes recently doubled their growth forecast for this year to 1.3 percent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

This week, leading economic institutes raised the country's growth forecasts for 2026 and 2027 above 1% while illegal entries into Germany – and Europe – are down year on year.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, a group of major German economic research institutes, which includes Ifo, said Thursday that the country’s economy had recovered significantly more strongly than expected, driven by strong exports and a robust manufacturing sector.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The company told me that it’s “pleased with the analysis” and added, “we regularly provide data to credible and verified third-party research firms and institutes to ensure accuracy and factual representation in any public reporting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

In this, somewhat unexpectedly, he was opposed by T. H. Huxley, who believed that museums should be primarily research institutes.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Both Florida and Alabama instituted mandatory evacuations due to the storm.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But recently, they instituted a “cold call rule” allowing them to call each other anytime, day or night, without texting first.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

He noted that the $100 price hikes on newer and earlier-generation phones came in below the $150 to $200 increases on iPad and MacBooks instituted this summer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The professional world’s social media of choice has instituted a “seems like AI slop” button in an attempt to stop the churn of LLM-written “thought leadership” posts haunting the platform.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

But with the “improvement” instituted by the Forest Service, the willows went the way of the sagebrush, killed by the same impartial spray.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

But there are significant practical problems even with doing that, let alone instituting a sweeping new civic contract.

From Salon ● May 18, 2026

The state government established what was called a “concurrency doctrine,” instituting strict requirements for infrastructure development—water, sewer, schooling—that had to be established before construction permits were granted.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

That demand-destruction scenario is already now playing out in several Asian countries, which have moved to curb crude consumption by instituting four-day workweeks, early office closures and other power-saving measures.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026

Google codified this by instituting “20% time”—work on anything you want—which produced Google News, Gmail and AdSense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Truman tried to mollify his critics by instituting a new loyalty program for the federal government.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau


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