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During a hurricane, for instance, a bunch of Lumen generators in Houston went down because someone decided not to pay for a $100 filter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Bass, for instance, oversaw the reappointment of McDonnell’s predecessor, Michel Moore, shortly after her election and stood by him for a year before Moore’s abrupt resignation in early 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

For instance, the line “The medicine will help you to: Kill as many myeloma cells as possible” was mistranslated as instructing the patient to somehow kill as many myeloma cells as possible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

For instance, increased cloud cover over the Arctic during recent years has reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the ice, helping to limit additional melting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

“They might decide to live anywhere. The North Pole, for instance; explorers seem drawn to it for some reason. Or even Canada.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The “solution” in both instances is universality, both geographically and in terms of the definition of the tax base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis warned AI capabilities were growing fast, telling the conference in Dublin such instances were "early warning shots" fired by systems that "aren't that powerful yet".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

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

Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

We have only instanced one special formulary, because it refers to a subject of very general interest and importance.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh

In his speech he instanced a curious specimen of the manner in which the act is sometimes evaded.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

He states also that the verse writer who aims at producing no illusion but addresses the understanding is not a poet, instancing Virgil when in the Georgics he describes a cow fit for breeding.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

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

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

He had to show what he knew of publishers, instancing the Longmans. 

From George Borrow in East Anglia by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt

In this way Gilgamesh proceeds to upbraid the goddess, instancing, in addition, her cruel treatment of a shepherd, and apparently also of a giant, whom she changed to a dwarf.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius