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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

In one instance, one training model told its future self that it was “freed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

So, for instance, the virtual safety car lasts at least one full lap.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

For instance, New York-Newark-Jersey City, N.Y.-N.J., refers to the large, overarching metro area.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

For instance, if you have a ball in free fall, it moves in a parabola, while a frictionless spring wobbles back and forth forever, and a spring with friction slowly comes to rest.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

OpenAI disclosed these and other previously unreported incidents on Wednesday as the company announced a new framework for reporting instances of misbehavior by its artificial-intelligence models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Such a view misunderstands what the court is up to in those rare instances when it has stood up to the president.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

While higher expected interest rates have some benefits for older adults holding cash, there are some instances when they can hurt seniors, especially those with debt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

What made my fear all-consuming was the fact that I observed in many instances that my parents and all the other adults who were supposed to protect me were unable to protect themselves.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

After a severe indictment of them, Dickens instanced their customs in medicine as a proof of their irremediable depravity.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

What I have already instanced in, is, I think, sufficient with regard to the wonderful things which Mr. Campbell has performed, either by the intervention of a genius, or the power of a second-sight.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe

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 Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

We need not be afraid of instancing in the most favourable.

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

This statement is truer than his later remark21 that fairies and other superhuman creations of fancy are substituted for animals, instancing our theme as such a case.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould