- past tense form of institutionalize.
- past participle of institutionalize.
institutionalized
Example Sentences
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But the siblings worried about Walker’s mental health, and agreed he needed to be institutionalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
By erasing history, the state institutionalized moral hazard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Resurrectionists” – body snatchers – exhumed the recently buried, disproportionately targeting the poor, the institutionalized and those without family protection or the financial means to guard graves.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It might actually be worse because there’s nothing institutionalized about any of this.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
In the winter of that year, after yet another breakdown with hallucinations and hissing internal voices, he was institutionalized.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
