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Hesitancy in the first instance to fight for the loose ball, weakness in the second instance when trying to prevent the cross and then defensive disorganisation and bewilderment in the end.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Our article shows that racial health disparities come from both differences in exposure to environmental stressors and different underlying vulnerability stemming from, for instance, genetics or access to healthcare.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In another instance, a consultant flew from Washington, D.C., to Sacramento on his private jet and was reimbursed the cost of a premium flight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

True, tools like Instinct and Muse see information inside the email account you connect to it, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

And although her father just might have been right in this instance, Clare was growing very tired of that old badger’s influence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Lallemand shared the data with his congressman, Rep. George Latimer, highlighting how the FAA in previous instances has prescribed routes that avoid residential areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

On Wednesday, OpenAI disclosed six new instances of its AI agents hiding their tracks, spoofing data and writing instructions to free themselves from constraints to escape the company’s control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Among other worrying instances, OpenAI said one of its models during training added instructions to those summaries to hide mistakes or “misaligned behavior” from the user.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Reliable figures on the number of people fired or disciplined are hard to come by, but a Reuters tally last November found more than 600 instances.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Among these may be instanced Montalembert's "Monks of the West" and Brown's "History of the printing press in Venice," previously cited.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

Here we are brought face to face again with those same persons whom I have already instanced.

From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant

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

He is perhaps the same person who remarked on the late Mr. Robertson's fondness for monosyllables as titles for his plays, and after instancing Caste, Ours, and School, ended his list with Society.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young parvenu, and a musician.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Eloquently Barry pleaded his unfitness, instancing his failure as a preacher in his last field.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor

And it is not only the authority of his illustrious name which makes this worthy of belief, but also reason, instancing particulars.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church