institution
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Black academic Jason Arday, who resigned from the University of Cambridge last week amid a high-profile plagiarism storm that featured racism claims, was found dead Friday, the prestigious British institution confirmed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
For many 18-year-olds, college is the first large institution they experience independently from their families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The case stemmed from a broader legal dispute over the renaming of the cultural institution, which US law designates as a memorial to President John F Kennedy.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The institution is looking to supply Colombian earthquake victims with antibiotics and wound care packages and to equip paramedics with surgical equipment and field medic packs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
I should have known the theatre would prove to be as heartless and harsh as any other institution.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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The findings come from a new Nature study involving 15 biomedical research institutions across the United States.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
The demand for formal apologies, debt relief and financial compensation from nations and institutions that benefited from slavery has become increasingly forceful.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
However, early reports indicate more than 150 houses had been severely damaged, as well as dozens of educational institutions, a number of healthcare facilities, places of worship, offices, and several other public facilities.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Benaissa said the mass crossing by such people was a "deeper sign of a crisis of confidence in the future" and in "the ability of institutions to guarantee adequate social protection and equal opportunity".
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
What looks like a brute fact—the distance a body falls in a certain period of time—turns out to be in part dependent on language and institutions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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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