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instruct

[in-struhkt] / ɪnˈstrʌkt /




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The administration didn’t instruct health officials to approve Replimune’s drug, and the White House has since handed the reins to the FDA, people familiar with the events said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

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

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has had to instruct some of its AI tools to stop talking about "goblins", after finding the term had randomly crept into responses.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

He noted that recipients of a blind trust can’t instruct the trustee in asset management.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

I am at the end of this book; there are no further leaves to write upon, but the stubs of that quire I tore out to instruct my friends in writing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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