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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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Morgentaler describes getting calls “all the time”—for instance, from men completely unable to find a physician to prescribe testosterone therapy.

From Slate Sep. 13, 2026

It is not the first instance of Arteta using unusual methods in his team's preparation.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Lee Chang-dong’s superb “Possible Love,” for instance, generates its explosively intimate finale by first investing us in the saga of strikers reeling from a brutal government crackdown.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

For instance, I recently gave Claude Code a year of my chats, and asked it to infer my top values and priorities from the way I talked about different tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

That conversation, as Hamilton now remembered it, “consisted of comments on the political principles and views of Col. Bur...without reference to any instance of past conduct, or to private character.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In a lot of instances, they agree with what he’s doing.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

This is one of those instances where tennis people need to mingle with non tennis people and get shocked back to reality.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

“They all kind of dealt with different characters trying to address the unknown or people or instances they’re not familiar with,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

Following other high-profile trials, jurors have in some instances come forward to discuss the case, even writing books or doing media interviews.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

“All those instances with Peter earlier on this year, and with Luke’s plant concoction, and all the other mischief.”

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

As such, players can expect to wait longer than normal to log into game servers, visit new Endwalker specific areas, and experience instanced content-like duties.

From The Verge Nov. 30, 2021

The FX we’d used earlier were now composed of millions of these instanced pieces, and she was having a hard time loading them all because it took up so much memory.

From The Verge Jan. 30, 2019

World and all the other potential character builds and instanced stories in the offing.

From Time Sep. 11, 2012

If, an hour before, he had been asked what kind of life came nearest his ideal, perhaps he would have replied, "The literary life," and he would have instanced Vickars.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

She instanced as an example of the kind of thing she meant, the verses about turning the other cheek.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Landgraf supports his position by instancing similarities of expression in the Bell.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

In reply to his denunciations the suitors accuse Penelope of deluding them, instancing how she promised to choose a husband as soon as she had finished weaving a winding sheet for her father-in-law Laertes.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Give me leave to show the inimitable softness and sweetness of the English Tongue, only by instancing in one Word.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney

The following remark of his is worth instancing.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster




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