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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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Whey protein, for instance, is a well-researched supplement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

For instance, the National Bureau of Statistics said 17.7 million babies were born in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

"Often, the lesion can be accessed from the outside or inside, for instance, via image-guided biopsy or endoscopy, but sometimes this is not possible," Venuta said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Shares of Lumentum and Coherent, for instance, are up 516% and 148%, respectively, in the past year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one.

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

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

The duo measured the stock market’s trailing four-year total return for each month since the late 1700s, finding many instances in which it was better than it has been currently.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

While other AI models were implicated in certain other instances, most known cases were associated with OpenAI’s chatbot, and in particular the GPT-4o model, which was in service from May 2024 until early this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The department said it was going public with the incident ahead of a report that Anthropic was planning to release Friday describing this and other instances of unintended behavior by its models.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

In other instances he had been annoyingly candid in pointing out where Perutz and Bragg had publicly overinterpreted their hemoglobin results.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

Among these may be instanced Montalembert's "Monks of the West" and Brown's "History of the printing press in Venice," previously cited.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

He instanced an episcopal dinner-party that he had attended, and a church dignitary's "three sweetly pretty daughters," who had come in the evening, and with whom he had sung duets.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

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

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

The smile, and this instancing by the girl-mother of her own tiny flesh and blood affected me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

He is perhaps the same person who remarked on the late Mr. Robertson's fondness for monosyllables as titles for his plays, and after instancing Caste, Ours, and School, ended his list with Society.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

I speak now of no exceptional, but of general cases, instancing only the representative of the highest class of Southern men.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various




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