How to Use institutionalized in a Sentence
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And these elements of trust include the rule of law, an independent central bank, and an institutionalized system of checks and balances.
—Chris Wellisz, CNN, 20 Mar. 2022
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The Census defines the labor force as all non-institutionalized civilians over the age of 16 who are either working or actively looking for work, including those serving in the Armed Forces.
—Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2023
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Russia is a country that makes no effort to make sense of, define who was responsible, ask for forgiveness and move on from its legacy of mass murder and institutionalized sadism.
—Peter Pomerantsev, Time, 4 Oct. 2022
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His mother’s greatest fear is that her son will become an institutionalized test subject.
—Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
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With the rise of the illicit drug economy, the gang itself became an institutionalized route to mythologized riches.
—David Pyrooz, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021
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In the middle of the 20th century, Black Portlanders were boxed out of many of the city’s neighborhoods and suburbs through redlining, the institutionalized refusal to provide them with mortgage loans and other financial services.
—oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
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Harold returns to the matter of his institutionalized mother only intermittently, and as little more than an object of fear or fury.
—Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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But there remain challenges – including the fact that Russia has a much higher rate of institutionalized children than other middle- to high-income countries.
—Clementine Fujimura, Fortune, 7 July 2023
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The character rose to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector (one of the first women at that level) by solving hard cases in the face of institutionalized sexism in the department, but is still not given big cases when the series begins.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
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And even if the structure of the place clashes with Native culture in assimilationist ways, there’s also no institutionalized abuse going on.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2023
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Half a century earlier, jazz grew out of New Orleans’s brothels, bars and street parades — one of the few permissible modes of Black public expression, if not the only one, in a time of institutionalized white supremacy.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
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Xi’s regime remains grounded in a strong and institutionalized party-state bureaucracy that has no equivalent in Russia.
—Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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Today the immensity of his achievement casts a shadow over the institutionalized spaces of art history and criticism, fluttering above them on iridescent wings made of words.
—Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
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When, as in Ghana, the party system is well institutionalized, and parties are stable and well organized, political leaders delegate the extraction of resources from the state to party networks.
—Rachel Sigman, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
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The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act transformed decades of institutionalized care that was often tragically coercive.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
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This account suggests that the interests of capital and labor are opposed, such that more institutionalized labor markets inevitably slow the adoption of automation.
—Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
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Black immigrants will never bear the burden of American slavery and its intergenerational trauma or experience the institutionalized school-to-prison pipeline in the way many Black Americans have.
—Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 Apr. 2022
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Based on a book of the same name edited by Leslie G. Klein, the exhibit features the work of nine activist photographers who documented the clash between institutionalized discrimination and determined resistance by activists and volunteers.
—cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
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Thirty years ago, a majority of White South African voters approved a referendum supporting the dismantling of apartheid, the country’s harsh institutionalized system of racial segregation.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
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The adult children of institutionalized serial killer Victoria Helstrom use supernatural powers to stop bad guys.
—Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2020
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More Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years after leading efforts to dismantle South Africa's apartheid system of institutionalized segregation.
—Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2020
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Many more were complicit in Texas’ institutionalized system of segregation.
—Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
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Gernreich’s most iconic design is unpostable on Instagram with its institutionalized nipple ban.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
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Recidivism rates have remained stubbornly high, and despite many efforts in too many directions, rehabilitation in California prisons remains more a scattershot option than a institutionalized plan.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
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There are currently hundreds of ongoing lawsuits against police departments across the country, alleging a culture of institutionalized negligence, antipathy, and outright hostility towards survivors.
—Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 6 July 2020
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Historians say this lack of institutionalized processes for selecting its leader has engendered bitter power struggles over the party’s centurylong history.
—Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2022
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Kilicdaroglu promises to adopt a more institutionalized approach to foreign policy, allowing multiple actors to influence future decisions.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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That deficiency exists elsewhere in institutionalized L.A.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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Inside detention centers, institutionalized harm continues.
—Alejandra Oliva, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2022
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For the Bedouin, to reach across to Jewish Israelis means surmounting the indignities of institutionalized mistreatment.
—Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
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