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The inability to deal with a free-kick, the failure to pick up the goalscorer in the first instance and then multiple calamities in the concession of the second goal.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The most recent instance of this involves the East Potomac Golf Links, a historic golf course Trump wishes to redesign but has faced legal setbacks after hundreds of trees were cut down for the project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Baghdad, for instance, began the end of a 2,600-year-old community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

For instance, she began to wonder if she still wanted to remain child-free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It wasn't that he didn't want to help, though he certainly had better things to do with his time than work on the lawn—like drawing, for instance.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

They said housemates are monitored 24 hours a day and "any instances of inappropriate behaviour are responded to appropriately".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In most instances, judges have said school officials may use “race-neutral” policies to achieve racial diversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The combinations produced more than 100 instances in which a sweetener's effect on bacterial growth changed in the presence of another substance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In our 16+ years living in Cuenca, we have seen innumerable instances of people arriving with the intent of never living in the United States again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

And in those instances, it was a very good thing that Clare was already undead.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

As such, players can expect to wait longer than normal to log into game servers, visit new Endwalker specific areas, and experience instanced content-like duties.

From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021

The FX we’d used earlier were now composed of millions of these instanced pieces, and she was having a hard time loading them all because it took up so much memory.

From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019

World and all the other potential character builds and instanced stories in the offing.

From Time ● Sep. 11, 2012

However, except of late, a precedent of this practice can hardly be instanced among the sufferers of Christ in former times, but, on the contrary, many have refused such offers.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

In the morning preceding the destined evening, her lord signified his dislike of gaming with dice; and instanced some families to whom it had proved destructive.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish

Once I spoke to an Officer high up in the Army of this matter, instancing, amongst other things, its brass bands and loud-voiced preaching at street corners.

From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard

He had to show what he knew of publishers, instancing the Longmans. 

From George Borrow in East Anglia by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt

In this way Gilgamesh proceeds to upbraid the goddess, instancing, in addition, her cruel treatment of a shepherd, and apparently also of a giant, whom she changed to a dwarf.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

In reply to his denunciations the suitors accuse Penelope of deluding them, instancing how she promised to choose a husband as soon as she had finished weaving a winding sheet for her father-in-law Laertes.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber