institutionalization

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Rather, we have opened the space for it to be replaced by the institutionalization of norm-breaking itself.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2025

He wrote that he was “very sick” and suggested that he had lied about his health to avoid further treatment or institutionalization.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

By now the story is familiar: Those people in her corner emerged in the form of the #FreeBritney movement, which protested her institutionalization and conservatorship.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton