instructed

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Mercedes - for one - had instructed their drivers to go wide on the pit-lane entry to avoid this risk.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Indonesia's national disaster agency, meanwhile, instructed officials in the North Sulawesi capital, Manado, northern Gorontalo province and the Sangihe islands "to immediately direct their residents to evacuate in an orderly manner to higher ground".

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

Pauken was also instructed to travel several times between 2019 and 2025 to meet with people in the US who could provide him with information to pass on to the PRC.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Foreign Minister Winston Peters's office confirmed the ban and said he instructed the the nation's diplomats "to express concern at this departure from past practice and to better understand it."

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

As instructed by her source, she and Greenwald waited outside a specific restaurant in a mall, watching for a man holding a Rubik’s Cube.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin