instruct
Example Sentences
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The hidden prompts could instruct the app to scan a company’s internal systems for sensitive files and transmit them to the attacker’s server.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Musk testified earlier in the week that while he did instruct Birchall to file the paperwork, it was just “in case it was needed, but it turned out not to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Geofence warrants instruct technology companies to turn over data about any of their users who passed through a given geographic radius during a particular window of time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The breakthrough only came 12 years later, when Appeal was able to instruct scientists to take the sample and look again.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
No, Powell said, the doctor said he had to deliver it personally to the secretary of state and instruct him how to take the medicine.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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