How to Use institution in a Sentence
institution
noun- She's not interested in the institution of marriage.
- The play has become something of an institution on Broadway.
- Family visits are a Thanksgiving institution.
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These views are her own and not those of her institution.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Texas Tech seems to be an institution that doesn't get it at all.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
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Earnest Americans are the ones who wield the glue guns in this grand institution.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2022
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Here’s a sign of how just long The Beach Boys have been a cultural institution.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2023
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The fund’s sister institution, the World Bank, has a much gloomier view.
—David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
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For all of its panache, the Kirkland remains a small institution.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
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The third notable finding from Pew was a growing sense that the Supreme Court as an institution had grown too strong.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
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The King’s Singers are an institution in the world of classical music.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Mar. 2023
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The institutions have produced some of the best and brightest Black thinkers who have shaped society.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
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The path to the Olympics The Olympics, in its modern form, is a 128-year-old institution with events like track and field forming a quintessential part of it.
—Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 4 Aug. 2024
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The program is seen as a way to help clients stay in their home and avoid the higher costs of hospitals and other institutions.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
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If that’s true, Americans will lose trust in yet another institution, and the court will lose touch with the will of the people.
—Mary Ziegler, CNN, 22 Nov. 2022
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Cool off from your beach day at Angel’s Ice Cream, a local institution for sweet treats over 20 years.
—Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
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The figure makes the Howard County parish one of a handful of Catholic institutions home to a large number of staff who abused minors over an 80-year span.
—Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
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All ticket sales go to the non-profit film institution.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2022
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But after the Court’s ruling, schools weren’t the only private institutions that found themselves in the crosshairs of DEI’s critics.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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Thus unspools a road to education that takes her around the world and into some of the most storied institutions on the planet.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
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The Strand bookstore is a classic New York institution.
—Dana Givens, Robb Report, 13 Sep. 2022
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The medal is the highest distinction from the institution, which was created in 1898.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
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The victims include three young students of the private, Christian institution and three adults who worked there.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023
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Gay is the second Black woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution.
—Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
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A lot of institutions need to be held accountable for this period of time.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
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The decision to not support an institution with roots in the city extending back to 1856 is not without angst, Stephens says.
—Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 16 Feb. 2023
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The league, called Liga F, was one of the first soccer institutions to criticize Rubiales’ conduct.
—Joseph Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
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Over half of all incidents at these institutions were bomb threats.
—Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
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Some Western nations recognize the importance of cognitive warfare and have policies, practices and even institutions to compete in the cognitive space.
—Michael Miklaucic, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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The combination of speed, security, and programmability is reshaping the rules of money movement—and the institutions that embrace this shift now may define the future of finance.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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