How to Use institutionalized in a Sentence

institutionalized

adjective

• His mother’s greatest fear is that her son will become an institutionalized test subject.
  — Eliot Schrefer, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2022
• But there wasn’t any institutionalized order to conduct rapes.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
• The political landscape is inequitable and favors deep pockets and institutionalized politicians – not me and not you.
  — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Both had spent their entire lives chafing under the terror of bigotry, and from the hypocrisy being exposed by a heinous, toxic legacy of institutionalized double standards.
  — John E. Green, Time, 1 Feb. 2026
• The woman who brutally stabbed her sixth-grade classmate more than a decade ago is returning to institutionalized care on Tuesday after running away from a group home last month.
  — Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
• If the sanctions regime does drag on and becomes institutionalized, the West may yet succeed in undermining Putin’s system.
  — Vladislav Zubok, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
• Also, for me as an outsider, this was my chance to look at the American system and the utter corruption that has been an institutionalized part of it, at least from my perspective.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The fairy tale works its spell through persistent naïveté, by simple defamiliarization that unmasks the institutionalized and the ordinary as the absurd.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
• 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
• Stalin’s system proved unable to survive without him, despite having an institutionalized ruling party.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
• As coworking becomes more institutionalized, one challenge industry leaders face is preserving the agility and local relevance that made the model successful in the first place.
  — Jason Anderson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Many more were complicit in Texas’ institutionalized system of segregation.
  — Joshua Kagavi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• Erratic exchange rates, years of institutionalized corruption under the Assad regime, and war led to the destruction or closure of thousands of businesses.
  — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
• Tense courtroom scenes, chameleon characters, and subjects of institutionalized abuse, political corruption and flaws within the justice system make for a strong stage proposition.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2026
• But when the parties are helping organize the animosity, the violence itself can become more institutionalized.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• However, the game – mandatory for all high school students – was also used as an instrument of institutionalized bullying of younger students by older ones, with physical attacks on younger students built into the game.
  — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
• Critics have long described the system as a form of institutionalized nepotism, where loyalty to the ruling family often outweighed formal qualifications.
  — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
• For the Bedouin, to reach across to Jewish Israelis means surmounting the indignities of institutionalized mistreatment.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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
• The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act transformed decades of institutionalized care that was often tragically coercive.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• Geyser's defense did not contest the petition from Wisconsin's Department of Health Services to return her to institutionalized care.
  — Doha Madani, NBC news, 23 Dec. 2025
• 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
• That means uprooting institutionalized callousness and redefining what counts as efficiency, innovation and value.
  — Valerie L. Myers, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
• The similarities in the number by type of documents across recent administrations highlight the ongoing and institutionalized role of the executive branch within the federal government.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Nationally, Medicaid covers 40% of children and 44% of non-institutionalized, non-elderly adults with disabilities.
  — Amber Hunt, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Jan. 2025