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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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For instance, the suit alleges that in 2024 Penske Media sold “Variety Golden Globes” dinner series offering access to Golden Globes voters at $70,000 apiece, as cited in media reports.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

In another instance, a Waymo vehicle stopped in a marked disabled parking spot while waiting to pick up a passenger outside an elementary school.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Canadian YouTuber Lauren Southern, for instance, was an early adopter of pick-me conservatism whose first video, posted when she was 19, was titled “Why I’m not a feminist.”

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

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

“Anything? Would you, for instance, consider marrying me during tomorrow night’s performance?”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

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 been very few documented instances of non-citizens casting ballots in past elections.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

The next day I instanced a rather apt example.

From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William

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 Sully, James

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole 85 biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Oxenham, John

The Vanderpools were sure of this and the Englishman, instancing India, became quite eloquent.

From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

On this occasion the admiral was at great pains to explain the nature of this phenomenon to the people, by instancing the example of Etna and several other known volcanos.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

In this way Gilgamesh proceeds to upbraid the goddess, instancing, in addition, her cruel treatment of a shepherd, and apparently also of a giant, whom she changed to a dwarf.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris




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