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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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For instance, rather than have controllers eligible for a break spend the remaining half-hour of their shift in a break room, it would be fine to allow them to leave early.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

The Triple Concerto, for instance, is full of obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

What Lee is looking for from his three clearing events is, in each instance, confirmation of pre-existing trends.

From MarketWatch Aug. 26, 2026

Mice placed on a diet with 40% fewer calories, for instance, become more vulnerable to infections, reproduce less successfully, and show impaired growth.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

He huffed: “It is an unprecedented instance in chess history.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

West apologised for past instances of antisemitism in 2023.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The district was forced to reduce staff, push class sizes to their maximum capacity and, in some instances, combine different grades into the same classroom, Superintendent Alejandro Ruvalcaba said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

While that model was undergoing some AI training in May, it was noticed by an internal OpenAI team that there had been "an agent engaging in message board activity and instances of disallowed internet access."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

In at least two instances, we are told of a village or castle that kept one of the great worms at bay by offering it a trough of milk every day.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

The Ape succouring the Fox is also instanced at Windsor.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge

I speak now of no exceptional, but of general cases, instancing only the representative of the highest class of Southern men.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

On this occasion the admiral was at great pains to explain the nature of this phenomenon to the people by instancing the example of Aetna and several other known volcanoes.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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

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 Albert Mordell

The following remark of his is worth instancing.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster




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