instruct
Example Sentences
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The breakthrough only came 12 years later, when Appeal was able to instruct scientists to take the sample and look again.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Families described how they had to instruct solicitors, threaten court action and, as in Jacqueline's case, hire debt collectors to recoup money owed to them.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
States would have to recognize the new accreditor and instruct their medical licensing boards to recognize degrees from schools that use it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
The council voted in December to instruct city agencies to produce those reports within 30 days.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Her disastrous birth experience, and her decertification, had been so sudden and startling that no one at the Birthing Unit had thought to supply her with pills or instruct her to take them.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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