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institute

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




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The institute is partly industry-funded, including by the OpenAI Foundation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also urged Moscow to clarify "media reports of a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause" at the Irkutsk institute.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Russian authorities face growing international pressure to explain the death of a woman who worked at a plague research institute in Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The institute had a certain cachet, but the village of Dwight was no Chicago.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

The demonstrations aimed to showcase Europe's significant strengths in robotics thanks to many public and private research institutes, as well as start-ups and industrial groups.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The league institutes certain “max” salaries —collectively bargained with the players’ union—ensuring that teams are on a roughly level playing field as they court players and build rosters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

After that night Met Bong institutes a new policy and we now take turns guarding the camp at night.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

The company has also instituted new pricing moves early in the current quarter, including short-term capacity agreements, and these “are showing promise,” according to Volozh’s letter.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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

The bantustan system was nevertheless instituted; the voters had opposed it, but participated in it simply by voting.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

On top of that, he pointed out that Micron has been instituting long-term agreements, which lock in contracts with customers to sell capacity in advance and can limit volatility down the road.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has said the manufacturing powerhouse, the world's eighth-largest consumer of crude oil, is moving towards instituting fuel price caps to alleviate pressure on the country's energy supply.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Once it was gone, he was glad to be rid of it, for he had been troubled from the start by the danger of instituting the plan without first checking it out with Colonel Korn.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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