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To gain access to private keys or the systems that authorise transfers, hackers can exploit a software vulnerability, deploy malicious software, or target individuals -- for instance through phishing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

They can help voters navigate state laws — in Arizona, for instance, a requirement to show an approved form of identification when voting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Is it an instance of possibly doomed men gamely putting on a show for others who may be about to die?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Take, for instance, the relationship between gold and platinum prices — which has a surprisingly strong historical record of predicting stock-market returns over the 12 months that follow.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

In this instance, her hacking was more mischievous than malicious.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

“There have been numerous instances of fraud and corruption proliferating unabated within the homelessness-industrial complex,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Still, there have been instances in which decisions by independent arbitrators contributed to a municipality’s economic challenges, and elected officials were unable to unwind the rulings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

There are only seven previous instances of a team scoring 23 or more goals after seven games of a Premier League season.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Of the 55 instances that researchers examined in the 2017 study, seven athletes did not return to their sport.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

New Agers make all sorts of existence assertions: that ESP exists, that there have been instances of spoon bending, that spirits abound, that there are aliens among us, etc.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

As such, players can expect to wait longer than normal to log into game servers, visit new Endwalker specific areas, and experience instanced content-like duties.

From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021

The FX we’d used earlier were now composed of millions of these instanced pieces, and she was having a hard time loading them all because it took up so much memory.

From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019

World and all the other potential character builds and instanced stories in the offing.

From Time ● Sep. 11, 2012

She instanced as an example of the kind of thing she meant, the verses about turning the other cheek.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

In art—his "Lectures," "Notes to Pilkington's Dictionary," his "Aphorisms," and "The Fragment of a History of Art," may be instanced.

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

Once I spoke to an Officer high up in the Army of this matter, instancing, amongst other things, its brass bands and loud-voiced preaching at street corners.

From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard

We need not be afraid of instancing in the most favourable.

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

Captain Cathie, in one of his bluffer moments, bluntly suggested wholesale marriage as a preventive of irregularities, and the starting of a new race on that basis, instancing the Pitcairners as typical resultants.

From White Fire by John Oxenham

And after instancing a number of these stories "which deserve the gravest condemnation," he enjoins that God must be represented as he is in reality.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young parvenu, and a musician.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury