institution
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The action forces Caltech to compete for control of the La Cañada Flintridge institution it has managed since NASA’s inception in 1958.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
The institution was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 to promote economic recovery after the revolution.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
In Great Barrington, browse home goods at One Mercantile and Barrington Outfitters before dinner at Prairie Whale or the Old Inn on the Green, a candlelit Berkshires institution inside an 18th-century inn.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Cardiff University said: "We condemn racism in all its forms and we are unequivocal in our position on this: We will not tolerate racism in our institution."
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Her adoptive father was schizophrenic and for a time lived at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry, a sprawling mental institution that was later closed by court order because it inhumanely “warehoused” its patients.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Vocabulary lists containing institution
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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