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Consider, for instance, a recent brunch in which absolutely nothing went wrong.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Parts of Herefordshire for instance have only received a tenth of the rainfall they would normally have seen by mid-October so far this month.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

For instance, the line “The medicine will help you to: Kill as many myeloma cells as possible” was mistranslated as instructing the patient to somehow kill as many myeloma cells as possible.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

He also can’t recall a single instance where he couldn’t find a sick bag in his seat on a Southwest flight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

For instance, the Catholic youth groups were not allowed to wear uniforms, to take excursions into the countryside, or to print or distribute journals.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Earlier he said that excessive police force had been registered in two instances and that two police officers had been suspended.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

In our 16+ years living in Cuenca, we have seen innumerable instances of people arriving with the intent of never living in the United States again.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The “solution” in both instances is universality, both geographically and in terms of the definition of the tax base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The company said it would not apply to "common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research" - suggesting it would only apply in clearly deliberate instances.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

What I am now describing, incidentally, is one of many instances I could relate to you to underline Lord Darlington's essentially shy and modest nature.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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 truth of these observations is strikingly instanced in a story told of Franklin in Pettigrew's Life of Lettsom.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

What I have already instanced in, is, I think, sufficient with regard to the wonderful things which Mr. Campbell has performed, either by the intervention of a genius, or the power of a second-sight.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe

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

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

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

The one produced a hundred instances of the enlarging and quickening of men’s minds, the other replied by instancing vulgarities, distortions, wide acceptance of nonsense.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young parvenu, and a musician.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury