instance

Example Sentences

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Sanders said: "There were a lot of officers who genuinely believed that this was an instance of murder."

From BBC

For instance, under the waiver, foreign tankers could be used to move gasoline and diesel fuel from refineries in Texas and Louisiana to the East Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal

This is when clinicians started to describe instances in which people who are metabolically healthy and obese as the “obesity paradox,” a concept that Russell, the physician in Rochester, describes as “bonkers.”

From MarketWatch

This is when clinicians started to describe instances in which people who are metabolically healthy and obese as the “obesity paradox,” a concept that Russell, the physician in Rochester, describes as “bonkers.”

From MarketWatch

Many economists believe, for instance, that a quirk in how the CPI accounted for missing data during last year’s government shutdown will artificially lower the consumer-inflation metric’s 12-month rate until April.

From The Wall Street Journal