instructed
Example Sentences
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The firm told The Wall Street Journal by email it “has never paid anyone to sue” and “has never instructed anyone to fabricate testimony.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
However, if your friend has texts, emails, voicemail messages or even notes made around the time he instructed the lawyer not to settle, those could help corroborate his account.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
In early July, high schools had been instructed to prepare for the measure's implementation in September, ahead of its adoption by parliament later that month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Administrators later warned teachers there were a “LOT of mistakes” on pages 19 through 36 and instructed students to tear the pages out of their planners before taking them home.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
