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 Further drops in mortality came in October 2025, when hospitals prioritized sepsis, getting more machines to run more blood tests and instituting workflows to pair the correct antibiotic with the associated infection, among other changes. —

Jessica Bartlett — Boston Globe, STAT, 21 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 The chief judge’s office had tightened its electronic monitoring violation policy over the winter, instituting a new requirement that any absence longer than three hours would need to be reviewed by a judge within a day. —

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026 Some authorities in the United States and parts of Europe are implementing moratoriums on new data centers or instituting rules that place responsibility for grid conditions onto the data center. —

IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2026 Passed as part of the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, the federal government is now instituting strict price controls on prescription drugs accessed through Medicare. —

Elaine Parker, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026

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Archer and Joby are establishing significant footprints already with bets in the Middle East, where regulators and governments have readily embraced the new tech.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 29 May 2026
But the incident will no doubt deal a blow to not only Blue Origin's ambitions of gaining ground on commercial spaceflight competitor SpaceX, but also to NASA's ambitions of establishing a foothold on the moon.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 29 May 2026