instruct
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has had to instruct some of its AI tools to stop talking about "goblins", after finding the term had randomly crept into responses.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
During the telehealth visits, staff will instruct patients on cognitive exercises, which they can then practice with the bot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The breakthrough only came 12 years later, when Appeal was able to instruct scientists to take the sample and look again.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Yet Jones didn’t instruct her to swab the plastic pill bag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing instruct
"The Crucible" -- Vocabulary from all 4 Acts
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"The Crucible" -- Vocabulary from Act 3
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Words to Know and Academic Words, Unit 5
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