How to Use institutionalism in a Sentence

institutionalism

noun
  • What has been on display is a perfect storm of misjudgment and anti-institutionalism.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Wanting better leaders never goes out of style, but the series’s reverent institutionalism now seems much more remote.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Only then, when all Biden's appeals to institutionalism — Congress!
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Biden has argued that only his moderation, his experience, and his institutionalism can relieve the country’s crises.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • For one thing, its anti-institutionalism would disempower journalism.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2011
  • Yeah, maybe institutionalism can actually bring a level of clarity and rationality to our Supreme Court.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 15 June 2023
  • Jordan’s holdouts, on the other hand, fit a much different mold—an ideologically diverse group of Republicans with a yen for institutionalism.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Both also faced significant criticism from people who saw their institutionalism as an overly optimistic analysis of the problems facing society.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 3 June 2022
  • Did Greene actually bend toward institutionalism, or did the institution relent?
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In the critics’ view, the previous Justice Department wasn’t normal, so deference to its debatable decisions amounts to a perversion of justice masquerading as institutionalism.
    — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • Whereas those were attempts—sometimes robust, sometimes cynical—to establish a set of countervailing scientific institutions, the Galilean mode is a free-floating anti-institutionalism.
    — Ari Schulman, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
  • No one can grant permission for this kind of reconciliation grounded in personal experience or legislate its effect, thus explaining the vehemence of Hickey’s anti-institutionalism.
    — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • In the space of a few short years, its leadership has pinged from neoliberalism to radical libertarianism to minoritarian institutionalism to authoritarian nationalism, hauling the conservative citizens of Sterling Heights along in their wake.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Promoting this ideology of anti-institutionalism and radical individualism was another way in which American intellectuals were attempting to break Americans away from European culture.
    — Daniel Ross Goodman, National Review, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Just in case there was ever any doubt, though, the new season of The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy doubles down on the Apple TV+ identity as a destination for comfortable institutionalism with an entire episode devoted to an interview with Prince William.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025

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