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For instance, if you decide you no longer want your device, it wouldn’t be as simple as returning it to Apple for free.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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According to the NCA, such alerts are made to law enforcement "to potential instances of money laundering".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
In some instances, hotels made up for the shortfalls by hiking room rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Even when these have been tested and thrown out as illegal by superior courts, they have in some instances continued to be enforced because “they haven’t taken them off the dockets.”
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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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 doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who came under his notice.
In harmony with this was his uniform seriousness, gravity, and becoming dignity of manner; and even in his merry-making humor, as instanced in describing Hayne leading the South Carolina militia, he never stooped.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
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
Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
What arguments in regard to a nation of forty-seven millions of people can be bolstered up by instancing the imperfect acquaintance of a Japanese pastry-cook with the English language?
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
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 Purney, Thomas
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
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