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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

That has driven down costs but also pushed some companies to the brink in another instance of the hypercompetition sometimes blamed for afflicting China’s economic health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL games cost a reported $150 million per year, for instance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

They quickly figured out, for instance, that the people at Moody’s and S&P didn’t actually evaluate the individual home loans, or so much as look at them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

“In the limited instances where prize fulfillment was affected by logistical or operational issues, we are taking steps to ensure participants receive the prizes or equivalent value to which they were entitled,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

I didn’t think the Sixers would be foolish enough to try to barricade all 512 instances of the white house.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

She felt as the dowager must have felt when she was trying to dissuade Tony from marrying an actress; she instanced every disadvantage she could think of for the filly; but Tony was obstinate.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

I have mentioned but three modes of force, and have instanced but a limited number of uses to which electricity may be turned.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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

From Four Early Pamphlets by Godwin, William

He had to show what he knew of publishers, instancing the Longmans. 

From George Borrow in East Anglia by Dutt, William A. (William Alfred)

Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert