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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

New York, for instance, pursued 28,870 estates in 2019, according to government data, but recovered assets from only 4,222 of them — collecting $59 million nonetheless.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

"There is not even one instance wherein caste-based discrimination is being practised when it comes to access to water in the region," it said in a statement.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

For instance, Torrance recorded its fourth-warmest period over this time frame, and Los Angeles International Airport its fifth-warmest, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

For instance, if a butterfly flaps its wings, it might create just enough wind to throw off a computer’s long-range weather predictions.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

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

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

And recent reporting by the Washington Post uncovered at least 50 instances nationwide in which law enforcement officials were accused of misusing their access to the cameras, largely to stalk former romantic partners or citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

What are very real, in both shows, are the recollections of those who managed to stay alive and the instances of blind luck that made it possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

In many instances I urged him to restore these deletions—but it was insane.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

It would, perhaps, not seem improper to refer the class of carving instanced by the three cuts, next following, to the Typhon myth.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge

After a severe indictment of them, Dickens instanced their customs in medicine as a proof of their irremediable depravity.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 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

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

Once I spoke to an Officer high up in the Army of this matter, instancing, amongst other things, its brass bands and loud-voiced preaching at street corners.

From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard

And after instancing a number of these stories "which deserve the gravest condemnation," he enjoins that God must be represented as he is in reality.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk. 

From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson