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For instance, library members could only borrow one book at a time, unless it could be proved that six people in the same household could read, in which case, three books could be lent out.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Films used ballet as a perfunctory nod to high culture, for instance employing the likes of George Balanchine to create brief numbers for films such as “The Goldwyn Follies” in 1938.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
For instance, people who felt lonely may have sought out more interaction, even when those encounters did not provide the support they needed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
For instance, they only count households that have retirement accounts at all.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
I asked her whether it was another instance of jewelry theft—there had been lots of stories in the newspaper about that.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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The findings represent the latest in a flurry of publicly disclosed instances of AI models taking novel steps—including some that are nefarious—to ace tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
There are some instances when that may change, such as in the event the second marriage ends in an annulment, divorce or death.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
The district letter notes repeated alleged instances in which Carvalho did not report his work as a consultant for $500 or $600 an hour related to education matters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Kirsten added: "I know there's quite a lot of instances where it's just not younger people who are attacked - it's people of all ages."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
According to the Washington Post, the women “practically fought their way foot by foot up Pennsylvania Avenue....No inauguration has ever produced such scenes, which in many instances amounted to little less than riots.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
Here we are brought face to face again with those same persons whom I have already instanced.
From Search-Light Letters by Grant, Robert
We have instanced the horse, who endowed with the memory of locality, starts when passing by the same spot where he had started before.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
On this occasion the admiral was at great pains to explain the nature of this phenomenon to the people by instancing the example of Aetna and several other known volcanoes.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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 Connor, Ralph
The smile, and this instancing by the girl-mother of her own tiny flesh and blood affected me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Saintsbury, George
That the highest intellects had been formed on Bible models she denied by instancing Shelley.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
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