How to Use institutional in a Sentence

institutional

adjective
  • Stocks of these institutional investors took a hit on the news.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The first nice thing this week is an institutional birthday.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Any claim about what should be taught had to be seen in light of the academy’s institutional role.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • For this to be the one to get the institutional attention — that’s a crime.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The process moves at the pace of institutional review.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And so did the institutional investors, pension funds and hedge funds that bought them.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026
  • And by the way, is that breadth and depth of deal flow the same deal flow that the institutional investors are getting?
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • And will these deals pay off for the institutional investors backing them?
    — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • Then more institutional knowledge that can't be replaced overnight walked out the door.
    — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Then more institutional knowledge that can’t be replaced overnight walked out the door.
    — Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Find out if your savings are held by one or both of these two giant institutional investors.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Ariel still ranks as the third-largest institutional holder.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 9 June 2026
  • That would be a lot of institutional knowledge about the culture that the club talks about so much going out the door.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2025
  • For an institutional investor or someone with large net worth, that might not be an issue.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Risks in other institutional settings are not such a matter of life and death.
    — Laura E. Alexander, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But why were institutional investors buying homes in the first place?
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Does that suggest that these products are not institutional enough yet?
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
  • That's been a big draw for institutional investors.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • So far, its use has been largely institutional.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That's the same trade-off institutional investors have made for a long period of time.
    — Hugh Leask, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Most firms are family-owned or have been around for years with large institutional investors.
    — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Nursing homes are seen as overly institutional and cater to the most disabled.
    — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a year-to-year institutional knowledge of the pitching staff, and there’s a strong bat in the lineup.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 23 June 2022
  • 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
  • Botstein’s five-decade tenure had made the school a fixture in art-world institutional life.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026
  • In some cases, children may have to drop out of school or even leave their homes to receive care in institutional settings.
    — Mehmet Oz, STAT, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the broader shift has to happen at the institutional level.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 30 Sep. 2025
  • To be clear, there’s been institutional capital in college sports for years.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This is leaving many institutional investors, who have raised money over the past few years, on the sidelines.
    — Matias Recchia, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • This is stale institutional language, not the language of groceries and rent.
    — Annelise Riles, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026

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