institutionalize
verb (used with object)
to make institutional.
have institutionalized
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present perfectof institutionalize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“I don’t think we understand what trauma does; I don’t think we appreciate how we have institutionalized a lot of trauma by the way we have been indifferent to basic human needs,” Stevenson told me.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2020
“We have institutionalized children so badly that they can’t go somewhere else.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2012
Star Wars doesn’t have institutionalized racism, at least not within individual species.
From Forbes ● Jan. 8, 2012
Unlike Americans, whose media have institutionalized the use of fear, and the Japanese, who used the BSE incident to make a political statement, Canadians looked first at the practical risks.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Gad Ya'acobi, a Laborite and Minister of Economics and Planning, noted, "We have institutionalized the tyranny of the minority."
From Time Magazine Archive
