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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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In another instance, DHS requested that Google turn over personal information about a Canadian citizen living outside the U.S., including his name and addresses, according to court records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The first alleged instance occurred in 2012 when they were dating and the other three allegedly took place in January 2026.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The sitcom creative explained how that instance inspired him to work hard to make it in Hollywood.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Blackstone, for instance, bills himself as Minaj’s musical director, but it’s been a while since the Harajuku Barbie dropped a new track.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 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

Still, there were plenty of instances where my thumb found its limits: turning off the flash in the camera app, or typing the letter “A.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In most instances, judges have said school officials may use “race-neutral” policies to achieve racial diversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 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

But in both of those instances, they would have piped the noise directly into whatever building the kids were in.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

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 particular class of phenomena may be instanced instead of many, in the observation and poetic reproduction of which his singular natural endowment continually manifested itself—I mean those of the weather.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward

The edifice has been thoroughly and unusually well restored, with an exquisite taste unfortunately too rare in country districts, and may be instanced as an example of what “restoration” should be.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper

The following remark of his is worth instancing.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster

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 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 Daniel Garrison Brinton

In reply to his denunciations the suitors accuse Penelope of deluding them, instancing how she promised to choose a husband as soon as she had finished weaving a winding sheet for her father-in-law Laertes.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various


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