instruct
Example Sentences
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For example, users might instruct their agents to root out risks created by being overly concentrated in one part of the market, or monitor a basket of promising semiconductor stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Dr Kennedy said Lady Donaldson is in no fit state to instruct her lawyers, follow proceedings or give evidence.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
I then instruct the fact-checker to build a table that lists all the facts it’s checking and mark each one as “true,” “false,” “ambiguous” or “unsupported.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
While weighing up whether to instruct Kavanagh to take a trip to the sidelines, England also looked at potential fouls by Trossard on Pablo and Declan Rice on Crysencio Summerville.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Conveniently, just at this time the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Christina, invited Galileo to instruct her teenage son Cosimo in the use of Galileo’s military compass and tutor him in mathematics generally.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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