instruct
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For example, users might instruct their agents to root out risks created by being overly concentrated in one part of the market, or monitor a basket of promising semiconductor stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
I then instruct the fact-checker to build a table that lists all the facts it’s checking and mark each one as “true,” “false,” “ambiguous” or “unsupported.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
While weighing up whether to instruct Kavanagh to take a trip to the sidelines, England also looked at potential fouls by Trossard on Pablo and Declan Rice on Crysencio Summerville.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Musk testified earlier in the week that while he did instruct Birchall to file the paperwork, it was just “in case it was needed, but it turned out not to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Sandi remembered when the famous Doctor Fanning and his wife had come down to instruct the country's leading doctors on new procedures for heart surgery.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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