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institute

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




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The court will institute accommodations for Jeffries’s age and potential for fatigue, including shortened days and frequent breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

It aims to help companies bridge expertise gaps "to move towards real-world application", said Zhao Han, deputy director of the ZJU institute behind the school.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Before running for governor, he founded Golden Together, a policy institute focused on researching issues like housing costs, homelessness and the state’s business climate.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The center is also a founding pillar of the new Vanderbilt Institute for Therapeutic Advances, a next-generation drug discovery institute that is also led by Lindsley.

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

I looked up to him and wrote detailed letters from the institute, sharing all of my thoughts on art and philosophy.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

There's been great progress in education enrolment and the number of private colleges and vocational training institutes have gone up exponentially in the last two decades.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

“What happened during that period was that a consensus emerged,” Eustis said, noting that it was expressed in the form of national endowments, state arts agencies, public policy institutes and corporate philanthropic departments.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Purchases or purchase orders by government-linked buyers — local governments, state-backed industrial parks, public research institutes, state-owned companies and government-funded demonstration projects — have soared.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

In private, German officials say some relabeling has happened but nowhere near the level alleged by the institutes.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

He runs the new neuroimaging lab at the University of California at San Francisco, one of the world’s leading scientific institutes.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Three years ago, Ashley Bates’ longtime primary care physician instituted an annual fee of $600 per patient, which was difficult for Bates and her family to afford.

From Slate Aug. 22, 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

Since Xue instituted the official policy, and particularly since he made the notice more prominent at the top of the menu, the number of incidents “has fallen considerably to basically zero,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

The victory galvanized American forces, who instituted a naval blockade that resulted in a debilitating food shortage in Tripoli.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

He maintained sagely that there is always a trade-off involved in the adoption of any policy, and that if daylight saving time were instituted, curtains and other fabrics would fade more quickly.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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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