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You don’t enjoy clicking around a bunch looking for a table, so you instruct an agent to do it for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

If you do pay extra to speed up your loan payoff, instruct your lender to apply all extra funds directly to your principal balance immediately and to keep your next payment due date unchanged.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Characters keep clunkily reciting statistics and facts everyone in the room would already know, solely to instruct the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

It added that government agencies in the threatened coastal areas should instruct populations at risk, and advised people located in those areas to "stay alert for information and follow instructions from national and local authorities".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

However, you probably understand more about dealing with your father and mother than I do, so I won’t attempt to instruct you but will leave everything to your good judgment.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

The commentary in particular also instructs judges when they can enhance or decrease a sentence based on the facts of the case.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

OpenAI instructs employees to avoid wearing company logos outside the office and warns them of espionage risks like honeypots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The change request instructs servicers to complete the task within 15 to 45 days, the suit alleges, and yet borrowers are still seeing the debt appear on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Their lawsuit also claims that when an account is shut down for dangerous behavior, OpenAI instructs the individual on how to resume usage, including tips on how to circumvent the 30-day suspension period.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

“Now look in the corner,” he instructs me.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu instructed local officials to impose partial curfews in a bid to quell the violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

But they can only do that if they’ve got a pretty wide sweep of your digital life and are instructed to work with what they’ve got.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Reyes had repeatedly instructed the government to notify the court and preservationists before undertaking significant work at the course.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

The other received a sham treatment, meaning they went through the same training process but were instructed to maintain their natural foot angle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Meanwhile, Mr. Brisbane patiently instructed the children as they arranged the pieces.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

For instance, the line “The medicine will help you to: Kill as many myeloma cells as possible” was mistranslated as instructing the patient to somehow kill as many myeloma cells as possible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Everyone in the room grabbed either shakers or a small drum, and with Densmore instructing and conducting, the ensemble conjured what he called the heartbeat of Mother Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Boeing will also send a bulletin to airlines detailing the issue and instructing employees how to recognize and respond to the situation should it take place.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Given how precarious the slope was, the group decided Mingma G would hang back and monitor by drone, instructing the three climbers.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

You cannot get it done by instructing each mind to make this or that piece, for central committees to fit with the pieces made by other instructed minds.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas