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Popular with Jewish and Muslim families as they are non-invasive, the high-powered X-ray beams create a 3D image of the body, uncovering bone-fractures or internal bleeding, for instance.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

For instance, Torrance recorded its fourth-warmest period over this time frame, and Los Angeles International Airport its fifth-warmest, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Amazon’s Prime Day, for instance, ran from June 23 to June 26.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

“When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree,” wrote Smith, “there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Great leadership had emerged in each previous instance to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

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

Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Sports is one of those rare instances where you can invest in something cool that also makes money,” Williams said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The World Cup saw fewer instances of grappling on corners, with goalkeepers given greater protection.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Thursday’s share unlocking marks the second of several such instances that are part of SpaceX’s staggered lockup schedule.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 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

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

They instanced a woman who had been married to seven brothers in succession, all of whom had died.

From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Austin Holyoak

The doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who came under his notice.

From The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous

On this occasion the admiral was at great pains to explain the nature of this phenomenon to the people, by instancing the example of Etna and several other known volcanos.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

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

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

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

He illustrates it by instancing the absence of a developed mode in Sanscrit, and maintains that in the creators of that tongue the conception of modality was never truly felt and distinguished from tense.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton