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Of course, not all shipwrecks find themselves in such relatively hospitable conditions—the Titanic, for instance, is slowly being gobbled up by iron-eating bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Cerebras shareholders, for instance, will get a chance to convert and sell 84 million Class B shares in August, then another 87 million shares in September and October—all before six months pass in mid-November.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

In other parts of the world these storms are given different names - for instance, typhoons in the north-west Pacific, near Japan and China, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean and around Australia.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Say, for instance, that you retired last year and went on Medicare.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

You couldn’t supply foreign warships with fuel, for instance, and you couldn’t ship guns to foreign armies.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield