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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

Yet antitrust law doesn’t treat every instance of coordination among competitors as suspicious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

For instance, an AI model could “create a better training algorithm and then apply this method to create a new model that is even better at coding or reasoning.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Anything? Would you, for instance, consider marrying me during tomorrow night’s performance?”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

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

The company then reported on six instances of “unexpected or concerning” behavior they’ve noted in the last six months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 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

In some instances, people were told they would be carrying suitcases full of clothes, gold or cash.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

One little fellow, more than once instanced in this work, a single child brought up wholly by his mother, perpetrated his first fib when he was about twenty-two months old.

From Children's Ways by James Sully

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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

In this way Gilgamesh proceeds to upbraid the goddess, instancing, in addition, her cruel treatment of a shepherd, and apparently also of a giant, whom she changed to a dwarf.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

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

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 Charles Maurice Davies

The one produced a hundred instances of the enlarging and quickening of men’s minds, the other replied by instancing vulgarities, distortions, wide acceptance of nonsense.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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