instructed

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A person answering the phone last month at the company’s main number instructed the Journal to email written questions, but the company still provided no response.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Even before Monday’s announcement, Chinese regulators had instructed several leading domestic AI companies not to accept U.S. funding without government approval, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

"I was instructed to go and ask for £3," he said.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”

From Slate • May 26, 2026

“Come, children. Put away your bowls,” she instructed.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood