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For instance, Grace uses his laptops, “waveform-analysis software” and Excel to prompt Rocky to identify numbers in his own language of notes and chords before eventually becoming fluent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Take, for instance, a pot of white beans built for speed.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Recessions are generally characterized, in the first instance, by the substitution of a sudden, sharp, upward movement in the unemployment rate for a gradual downward or sideways movement.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Koch, for instance, sleeps "suspended like a bat" while Glover fits himself into a narrow nook between space equipment and the ceiling of the spacecraft.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The companies paid high dividends, and their shares were often costly to borrow: New Century, for instance, paid a 20 percent dividend, and its shares cost 12 percent a year to borrow.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis