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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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Importantly, integrating Claude into Salesforce’s platform causes Salesforce to cede control of its user interface layer in some ways; the company must give up control of where users access Salesforce data from, for instance.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

Executives at Sciwind, for instance, say that the company is located nearby its CRO, allowing them to check on research progress daily.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

In agreeing with Lee, the judge noted that Agarwal's case lacked documentary evidence - for instance, he could not produce any proof that Lee had acknowledged receipt of the loans that she had allegedly requested.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Nicastro made recordings of a number of cat meows when the pets were in different states — being fed, for instance, or brushed.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

He knew, for instance, who their suppliers were.

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

In a lot of instances, they agree with what he’s doing.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

In 2024, the Jewish Book Council, a nonprofit literary organization, opened a hotline for authors to report instances of antisemitism in the literary world; as of July, it has received 350 independently verified responses.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

“They all kind of dealt with different characters trying to address the unknown or people or instances they’re not familiar with,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

He then claims they have done it several times before, in exchanges bleeped out but which appear to refer to other instances where this mechanism had been used before.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Other instances are Eli Whitney’s 1794 invention of his cotton gin to replace laborious hand cleaning of cotton grown in the U.S.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

One little fellow, more than once instanced in this work, a single child brought up wholly by his mother, perpetrated his first fib when he was about twenty-two months old.

From Children's Ways by James Sully

He instanced a case of a profit of $50,000 from a single cargo.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

He proved his wonderful theory by instancing a child playing with its mother, a symphony of Beethoven, and the life of Socrates!

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

Landgraf supports his position by instancing similarities of expression in the Bell.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

I cannot forbear instancing a few of these, because it may be of some use to those who shall have it in their power to be more cautious for the future.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott

I speak now of no exceptional, but of general cases, instancing only the representative of the highest class of Southern men.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various




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