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The buyback isn’t the first instance of reaching for levers to hold down borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

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

It was Karli’s idea, for instance, that two of the choir schoolchildren should take it in turns to ride up with him on Marlene, one in front of him, one behind.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

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

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

In these instances, I believe that her actions speak even louder than whatever words she might have said, so I have filled in some cracks in the research with my own phrasings.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

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 edifice has been thoroughly and unusually well restored, with an exquisite taste unfortunately too rare in country districts, and may be instanced as an example of what “restoration” should be.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper

The next day I instanced a rather apt example.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

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

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

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

She heard of the gramophone outrage in 1908 and she was still instancing it in 1912.

From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington