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It has sought to stay ahead of El Niño, for instance by using lights to lure salmon to cooler, deeper waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Some of the shuttered schools, for instance, were found to have churned out commercial driver’s licenses within 24 to 48 hours, and some didn’t even have trucks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The Triple Concerto, for instance, is full of obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Mice placed on a diet with 40% fewer calories, for instance, become more vulnerable to infections, reproduce less successfully, and show impaired growth.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

He peppered his conversation with cryptic references to how much money he made, for instance.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

West apologised for past instances of antisemitism in 2023.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Note that the score of 0 here includes all instances of a batter coming to bat including dismissals and not outs.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The report spends its 28 pages documenting instances in which the task force regarded, not disregarded, evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Using crowdsourcing techniques, VroniPlag Wiki in Germany and Dissernet in Russia have exposed numerous instances of plagiarism by public servants in their dissertations and academic publications.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

About Henry’s birthday party, or about the two instances when Francis’s mother—all red hair and alligator pumps and emeralds—turned up on her way to New York, trailing the Yorkshire terrier and the second husband?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

He instanced a case of a profit of $50,000 from a single cargo.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

She remembered it, because Jason had instanced it as an example of the long periods of time, that may be bridged by three or four persons’ successive memories.

From World's End A Story in Three Books by Richard Jefferies

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

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

Captain Cathie, in one of his bluffer moments, bluntly suggested wholesale marriage as a preventive of irregularities, and the starting of a new race on that basis, instancing the Pitcairners as typical resultants.

From White Fire by John Oxenham

He illustrates it by instancing the absence of a developed mode in Sanscrit, and maintains that in the creators of that tongue the conception of modality was never truly felt and distinguished from tense.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

And it is not only the authority of his illustrious name which makes this worthy of belief, but also reason, instancing particulars.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church