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A Russian Pantsir missile-defense system, for instance, can engage no more than four targets simultaneously, said Valery Romanenko, a former Ukrainian air-defense officer and a researcher at Kyiv’s National Aviation University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Yet hiking the retirement age by two years, for instance, would account for only about one-fifth of Social Security’s funding gap, he noted.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026

Beatty’s lyrics are filled with strong images and evocative phrases — the paint chipping off a “white picket dream” in the new album’s “Fleur de Lis,” for instance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

So how might he approach a relationship with US President Donald Trump, for instance?

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Especially when we learned that some of our close cousins—squirrels, for instance, and rabbits—were well liked.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien