instruct
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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
A golf academy on-site emphasizes positive experiences as coaches instruct children 3 and up.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 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
Some had to instruct lawyers and debt collectors and pursue taking a civil case against the operator, which runs a home which was at the centre of an undercover BBC investigation last year.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Stay put and get some sleep, Katniss, I instruct myself, although I wish I could start tracking Peeta now.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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