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For instance, normally sturdy tackle Joe Alt was flagged for false starts three times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The tariffs, for instance, made it more costly for businesses to obtain supplies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Gemini found "public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test", a Google official told the BBC, noting that in each instance "the model stopped".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

They all have their styles, histories and clocks: The 30-year-old Mr. Núñez, for instance, feels he’s in his prime right now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He didn’t alter the way he made investment decisions, for instance, or the way he communicated with his investors.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

AI titans Anthropic, OpenAI and Google - the tech companies behind Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, respectively - have also disclosed instances of security breaches or incidents in which their chatbots were used for "malicious activity".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

They were repeated instances of the same underlying model, often converging on similar approaches to the same problem—what Mr. Salvaggio calls an “algorithmic monoculture.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

On Wednesday, OpenAI disclosed six new instances of its AI agents hiding their tracks, spoofing data and writing instructions to free themselves from constraints to escape the company’s control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The company then reported on six instances of “unexpected or concerning” behavior they’ve noted in the last six months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

In many instances I urged him to restore these deletions—but it was insane.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

If, an hour before, he had been asked what kind of life came nearest his ideal, perhaps he would have replied, "The literary life," and he would have instanced Vickars.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

Cazalet instanced the alleged hearing of the gong as in itself an unconvincing statement.

From The Thousandth Woman by Ernest W. Hornung

This statement is truer than his later remark21 that fairies and other superhuman creations of fancy are substituted for animals, instancing our theme as such a case.

From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

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 Augustus F. Lindley

Give me leave to show the inimitable softness and sweetness of the English Tongue, only by instancing in one Word.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney

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