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The bloc's decades-old Petroleum Security Agreement, for instance, a fuel-sharing scheme aimed at ensuring energy stability, has never been invoked and is purely voluntary.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

One post on Facebook last week, for instance, purports to be written by historian Heather Cox Richardson.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Had it been any higher, for instance on the ankle, then a VAR intervention should have been expected.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Kuwait, for instance, didn’t export any barrels of crude in April, for the first time since the 1990 Gulf war, according to the ship-monitoring company TankerTrackers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

His first impulse, for instance, was to get into his car and drive to Ithaca, the nearest big town.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien