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Six example sentences with institutional, each labelled with its topic.
The reforms were institutional rather than personal, changing how the committee is staffed instead of who currently chairs it.
Politics
Institutional buyers took nearly the whole bond issue, leaving retail investors with a few thousand dollars of scraps.
Finance
The study blamed institutional habits, not individual laziness, for the six weeks patients waited between referral and first appointment.
Psychology
Institutional differences, such as courts that enforce contracts, explain more of the growth gap between countries than geography does.
Economics
The court's institutional memory lives in its clerks, who serve decades longer than any judge on the bench.
Law
Institutional buyers, meaning museums and university galleries, took most of the prints before any private collector saw them.
Art
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