instruct
Example Sentences
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During the telehealth visits, staff will instruct patients on cognitive exercises, which they can then practice with the bot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 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
Families described how they had to instruct solicitors, threaten court action and, as in Jacqueline's case, hire debt collectors to recoup money owed to them.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Some European countries instruct energy companies to hold a certain amount of petroleum in reserve, and simply reduce that target in a “release.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Because it was a violation of regulations for me to prepare a man’s case, I would instruct the prisoner to copy the document in his own hand.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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