instance
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For instance, the word "needs" often described basic requirements rather than human-like qualities.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
And yet it happened in this instance despite the high profile nature of the job and the high profile and colourful nature of the person who had got it.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
They should improve upon the investment provisions in the tax act by making all the expensing provisions permanent, for instance.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
While central banks sometimes see pronounced increases in energy costs as temporary, they can grow more concerned if price pressures spread to more persistent forms of second-round inflation via, for instance, spiraling wage costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“For instance, Adam was at the Snack Shack getting a soda at the time.”
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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