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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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"In addition, the process generates numerous transformation products that we have not yet been able to investigate in detail -- for instance, gaseous compounds that form during the reaction."

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

For instance, the growth cluster has delivered a consistent beat-and-raise dynamic for this year as well as upward revisions to 2027 estimates.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

K3 is a “home run” that represents another instance in which China’s top AI labs keeping pace with the U.S. frontier has surprised global investors, Robin Zhu and others say.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

In this instance, however, the concerns appear to centre on voter registration drives, not actual balloting.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

It was Karli’s idea, for instance, that two of the choir schoolchildren should take it in turns to ride up with him on Marlene, one in front of him, one behind.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

In some instances, hotels made up for the shortfalls by hiking room rates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

There have only been three instances on record of a player completing 100 or more passes in a World Cup final.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

In both instances, the officers involved were not wearing body cameras.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

In rare instances, they can occur during heart surgery.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

I can only hope this is one of those instances that he would call “getting messy for the greater good.”

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

In harmony with this was his uniform seriousness, gravity, and becoming dignity of manner; and even in his merry-making humor, as instanced in describing Hayne leading the South Carolina militia, he never stooped.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

She remembered it, because Jason had instanced it as an example of the long periods of time, that may be bridged by three or four persons’ successive memories.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Jefferies, Richard

He proved his wonderful theory by instancing a child playing with its mother, a symphony of Beethoven, and the life of Socrates!

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Captain Cathie, in one of his bluffer moments, bluntly suggested wholesale marriage as a preventive of irregularities, and the starting of a new race on that basis, instancing the Pitcairners as typical resultants.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John

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

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

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. 

From Memories and Portraits by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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




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