How to Use institutional in a Sentence

institutional

adjective
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  • After a while, part-time became full-time, and the institutional knowledge about the carousel had been passed down to him.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2023
  • The institutional shock of Russia’s lack of success, in turn, slowed its ability to learn and adapt.
    — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The Supreme Court is the sole institutional check on a government’s power.
    — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • As for the police, the official dismissed the notion of institutional bias.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 2 July 2023
  • What is the process of promoting something like this that doesn’t have that institutional backing?
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
  • For him, the way to counter this regression is through a strong commitment to institutional reforms.
    — Time, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The vote to depose the House Speaker was a long time coming, and both parties have played a role in putting partisanship above institutional norms.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The men are confined up to 148 hours each week in narrow concrete cells, 4 feet wide, layers of drab-colored institutional paint chipping off the walls.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Subjects such as the ‘68 Olympics have already received a good deal of institutional attention in the United States.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Yet even up against institutional strife and inter-staff sniping, Sam will survive against all odds.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The mayor will have gobs of money and institutional resources, and his opponents won’t.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Even in the rare case of a formal institutional process clearing the accused, as with Díaz, no amount of exoneration suffices for the staunch-minded.
    — Laura Kipnis, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
  • The gallery is an institutional space that, because of its human scale, can also feel personal.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • This concept of equity in the arts has become something of a cause célèbre in many institutional creative structures.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024
  • On the other hand, there’s no institutional pressure pushing people to dive in either.
    — Sara Harrison, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Soon after, Stewart went to work on Wall Street, and spent seven years as an institutional stockbroker.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But the government still lacks the technical and institutional abilities to make those changes happen, Hege said.
    — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Because those evils ran counter to the academic missions and institutional cultures on each side of San Francisco Bay.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • If the city did in fact partner with more of its private and institutional pools, a number that steadily grows every year, that could mean this weekend’s public pool closures would not spell the end of the swimming season.
    — Nicolas Kemper, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The question for the Navy, as Stewart saw it, was how to hasten the adoption of robotics and AI without getting mired in institutional bureaucracy.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • The museum isn’t framing the show as an institutional correction, though how can it be viewed otherwise?
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The energy around the fiber art movement, and the small flurry of institutional shows dedicated to it, petered out by the late ’70s, although many artists remained committed to the medium.
    — Julia Halperin, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The site is currently zoned for institutional use, which does not allow a commercial coffee shop.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Nearly all of Artemis’ institutional investors (95%) have re-upped.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • There was very little separation between the private world and the institutional world.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The new head of baseball operations also should have the institutional knowledge needed to decide which prospects are keepers and which can be traded.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Those high interest rates, coupled with high home prices, mean that buying new single-family rentals doesn’t make a lot of sense right now for institutional investors.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • With China in dire need of American capital, institutional investors hold the power to play a pivotal role.
    — Andrew King, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The GOP would elect someone with weak personal ties in the House, lack of institutional knowledge, and without the personal memory of how different things seem to unfold.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Indeed, with two strikes now resolved, the prospect of a third has already galvanized major institutional players.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023

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