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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

While some primates use stone tools to access food, for instance to crack open nuts, accumulative stone throwing is a rare example of stone tool use in a social context.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In 2023, for instance, it banned exports of non-basmati white rice for more than a year after crop damage contributed to rising food prices.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Great leadership had emerged in each previous instance to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In January, the European Commission took receipt of the "Stop Destroying Videogames" petition, signed by almost 1.3 million people, after high-profile instances of games being switched off.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

While that model was undergoing some AI training in May, it was noticed by an internal OpenAI team that there had been "an agent engaging in message board activity and instances of disallowed internet access."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

One of the largest instances was in 2023 when developer Insomniac Games was targeted for data surrounding the upcoming “Marvel Wolverine” game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 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

According to the Washington Post, the women “practically fought their way foot by foot up Pennsylvania Avenue....No inauguration has ever produced such scenes, which in many instances amounted to little less than riots.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

Her growth is instanced by the assessment on real estate, which rose from $5,400,000 in 1854, to $13,000,000 in twenty years.

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Willard W. Glazier

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

From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant

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

What arguments in regard to a nation of forty-seven millions of people can be bolstered up by instancing the imperfect acquaintance of a Japanese pastry-cook with the English language?

From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery

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

Mencius, instancing the practice of the ancient kings Wan and Woo under similar circumstances, replies that, unless the voice of the people invites the invader to take possession, he is not justified in so doing.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

The one produced a hundred instances of the enlarging and quickening of men’s minds, the other replied by instancing vulgarities, distortions, wide acceptance of nonsense.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells