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instrumentality

[in-struh-men-tal-i-tee] / ˌɪn strə mɛnˈtæl ɪ ti /


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This issue is more complicated than most, in large measure because the industry directly affected is already accustomed to being an instrumentality of the federal government.

From Washington Times • May 14, 2023

“They are a sovereign instrumentality of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the filing said, adding the discovery order was “an extraordinary infringement on the sovereignty of a foreign state.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

A listener neither strains to understand what’s being conveyed, nor feels defeated by overamplified instrumentality or inadequately interpreted lyrics.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

This can be done by showing that a part of the company created to avoid taxes is “nothing more than instrumentality of its parent company, a sham.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2013

At last, all the intelligence of the world admits that the theatre is a great, a splendid instrumentality for increasing the well-being of man.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green




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