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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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Bass, for instance, oversaw the reappointment of McDonnell’s predecessor, Michel Moore, shortly after her election and stood by him for a year before Moore’s abrupt resignation in early 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

For instance, the line “The medicine will help you to: Kill as many myeloma cells as possible” was mistranslated as instructing the patient to somehow kill as many myeloma cells as possible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

For instance, Mr. MacKay, who starred in the World War I drama “1917” back in 2019 but has done very little of interest since, plays Edward as a sort of immense rabbit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

If you up your budget to $12,000 a month, for instance, Boldin still gives you a 77% chance of success, and you’d still be projected to have several million dollars at age 97.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

For instance, I know that the dogs nearest the kitchen always eat best.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis warned AI capabilities were growing fast, telling the conference in Dublin such instances were "early warning shots" fired by systems that "aren't that powerful yet".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

A proposal has been put forward to add to Article 27 of the regulations a list of instances whereby a ban cannot be suspended.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

In some instances, federal agencies have mounted criminal cases against recipients of taxpayer money earmarked for homelessness services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The duo measured the stock market’s trailing four-year total return for each month since the late 1700s, finding many instances in which it was better than it has been currently.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Each of us noticed, however, that those instances of friendship were shrinking rather than growing.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" 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

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 Compton MacKenzie

Here we are brought face to face again with those same persons whom I have already instanced.

From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant

I cannot forbear instancing a few of these, because it may be of some use to those who shall have it in their power to be more cautious for the future.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole 85 biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

He is perhaps the same person who remarked on the late Mr. Robertson's fondness for monosyllables as titles for his plays, and after instancing Caste, Ours, and School, ended his list with Society.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

Landgraf supports his position by instancing similarities of expression in the Bell.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton


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