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In the case of cancelled flights or accommodation, Bose recommends seeking refunds from your airline, tour operator or accommodation provider in the first instance.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Companies of all sizes, for instance, are scrambling to adapt to the artificial-intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

For instance, co-ops can reduce the risks of trying to go it alone to launch a small business.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Many don’t break out individual countries, for instance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

How did the bet perform, for instance, using the assumption of losses generated by the most pessimistic Wall Street analyst?

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In other instances, they were daughters, state officials, or even the spouses of the governors doing the appointing.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

In some instances, the $1,000 would show as pending or on the way, officials noted at the time.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

That now ties tumultuous 2000 for the third highest number of instances this century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

There have only been three instances on record of a player completing 100 or more passes in a World Cup final.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Doing so is sometimes termed the “broad base” fallacy, and we’ve already cited a couple of instances of it.

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

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 Lyman, William Denison

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Eloquently Barry pleaded his unfitness, instancing his failure as a preacher in his last field.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph

He illustrates it by instancing the absence of a developed mode in Sanscrit, and maintains that in the creators of that tongue the conception of modality was never truly felt and distinguished from tense.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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 Scott, Temple

That the highest intellects had been formed on Bible models she denied by instancing Shelley.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Mencius, instancing the practice of the ancient kings Wan and Woo under similar circumstances, replies that, unless the voice of the people invites the invader to take possession, he is not justified in so doing.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.