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Instead, she highlights the challenging aspects of the business: wiping dog hair out of a washer, for instance, or dealing with a customer smoking in the bathroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

They threaten to run you down in crosswalks and refuse to bow out gracefully when told, for instance, that a pretty mechanical bird mounted on a boutique’s wall isn’t for sale.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Meta, for instance, is projected to see more than 500% growth in earnings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

So when, for instance, a federal agency like the Department of Veterans Affairs defines a medical term in determining which veterans get benefits, a court has limited discretion to second-guess that expert analysis.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

An opening line on a menu, for instance, was solved by an Army wife who was feeling outclassed by the top talent around her.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

Rubio also acknowledged the season, and added "there are other instances we've heard complaints about."

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

A proposal has been put forward to add to Article 27 of the regulations a list of instances whereby a ban cannot be suspended.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

In some instances, federal agencies have mounted criminal cases against recipients of taxpayer money earmarked for homelessness services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

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

I have mentioned but three modes of force, and have instanced but a limited number of uses to which electricity may be turned.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

One particular class of phenomena may be instanced instead of many, in the observation and poetic reproduction of which his singular natural endowment continually manifested itself—I mean those of the weather.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward

Mencius, instancing the practice of the ancient kings Wan and Woo under similar circumstances, replies that, unless the voice of the people invites the invader to take possession, he is not justified in so doing.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

I cannot forbear instancing a few of these, because it may be of some use to those who shall have it in their power to be more cautious for the future.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole 85 biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Eloquently Barry pleaded his unfitness, instancing his failure as a preacher in his last field.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor

The following remark of his is worth instancing.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster