instruct
Example Sentences
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Geofence warrants instruct technology companies to turn over data about any of their users who passed through a given geographic radius during a particular window of time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
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
Yet Jones didn’t instruct her to swab the plastic pill bag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
A more recent approach has been to instruct students as well — so they could better protect themselves and their peers.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Her disastrous birth experience, and her decertification, had been so sudden and startling that no one at the Birthing Unit had thought to supply her with pills or instruct her to take them.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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