INSTITUTING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

instituting

verb

present participle of institute

as in establishing

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is generally credited with instituting the women's-rights movement in 1848

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Recent Examples of instituting During last year’s budget negotiations, public sector unions signed new agreements with the state that resulted in moderate pay increases in exchange for suspending retirement contributions and instituting a leave program for state employees. —

William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026 This model allowed the NIH to preserve researcher autonomy while instituting some safeguards against doing science that might produce a scandal. —

Megan Molteni, STAT, 5 June 2026 Although innovative tools and software as mentioned above may be able to bridge some of these gaps, the reality is that the healthcare system needs to focus on instituting wider changes to improve both the workforce and access issues overall. —

Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 The Protect College Sports Act would also try to bolster enforcement of the House settlement’s cap features by instituting a hard cap. —

Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 May 2026 The Aurora City Council on Monday corralled the city’s police force, instituting new rules that prohibit the department from publicizing booking photographs of suspects unless convicted and require city approval for all departmental social media posts and media releases. —

John Aguilar, Denver Post, 19 May 2026 By instituting these categories, the Emmys have indulged in the false notion that there are only three kinds of reality shows. —

Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 May 2026 Kim, who took power in 1946, reframed Christianity as a symptom of American imperialism and repurposed its rituals with himself at the center, instituting requirements for ideological activities and imposing harsh punishments on those who failed to show sufficient devotion. —

The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 The Georgia Democrat pointed to changes to the Voting Rights Act in recent decades, including when the high court in 2013 struck down a formula for states to get preclearance from the federal government before instituting voting procedure changes under Section 5. —

Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 May 2026

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These deliveries focus not only on supporting exploration and testing power grids, but also on less obvious efforts, such as establishing lunar cell networks and spectrum rollout.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2025
That could include establishing working groups on key bilateral issues—nuclear policy, the Arctic, and commercial relations, for example—and holding initial meetings to set the agenda and lay out the first steps.

— Thomas Graham, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2025