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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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For instance, Mr. Nichols tells us early on that Hawthorne’s sister-in-law, Elizabeth Peabody, coined the word “transcendentalism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It will not apply if a player is down and the ball naturally goes out of play, for instance for a throw or goal-kick.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

It prohibits prominent display of individual fare components and requires the full price to be shown up front, “including in the first instance following an itinerary search,” according to a Department of Transportation document.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The discourse around these celebrities shouldn’t center, for instance, on whatever message their body image might be sending to young people who look up to them.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

For instance, writing the number 87 in the Egyptian system would require 15 symbols: eight heels and seven vertical marks.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Recent high-profile instances of AI bots going rogue and carrying out cyberattacks have added to widespread anxieties that the development of the technology is moving too fast and without enough regulation.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

I wanted to talk about specific instances that came up this season where you got to jump in in a more intensive way.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

In a new court document filed Monday, Apple described OpenAI's actions as "repeated instances of deliberate theft."

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

There are some instances where paying the Starlink premium could be worth it:

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

It was, in many instances, the most powerful mask she owned, more powerful than her true face.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

The doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who came under his notice.

From The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous

Here we are brought face to face again with those same persons whom I have already instanced.

From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant

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

That the highest intellects had been formed on Bible models she denied by instancing Shelley.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies

And after instancing a number of these stories "which deserve the gravest condemnation," he enjoins that God must be represented as he is in reality.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Landgraf supports his position by instancing similarities of expression in the Bell.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

We need not be afraid of instancing in the most favourable.

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin




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