instruct
Example Sentences
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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
Some had to instruct lawyers and debt collectors and pursue taking a civil case against the operator, which runs a home which was at the centre of an undercover BBC investigation last year.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The City Council voted 12-3 in December to instruct Feldstein Soto to “immediately” implement AB 630.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
States would have to recognize the new accreditor and instruct their medical licensing boards to recognize degrees from schools that use it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
I, as an attorney, could instruct him, but I was not technically permitted to address the court, and neither were any of the other defendants.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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