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She might immediately express enthusiasm for a concept from a client that still requires further research, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

Bass, for instance, oversaw the reappointment of McDonnell’s predecessor, Michel Moore, shortly after her election and stood by him for a year before Moore’s abrupt resignation in early 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In Alaska, for instance, the bears already know that the sound of a moose hunter’s gun means there will be a fresh gut pile when the hunter cleans the moose.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The duo measured the stock market’s trailing four-year total return for each month since the late 1700s, finding many instances in which it was better than it has been currently.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

In these instances, therapists recommend parents and kids who want to repair the relationship meet in a neutral setting, like a restaurant, to talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The department said it was going public with the incident ahead of a report that Anthropic was planning to release Friday describing this and other instances of unintended behavior by its models.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 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

In both instances Adams had disagreed with Jefferson and been proven right.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

After a severe indictment of them, Dickens instanced their customs in medicine as a proof of their irremediable depravity.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

He is perhaps the same person who remarked on the late Mr. Robertson's fondness for monosyllables as titles for his plays, and after instancing Caste, Ours, and School, ended his list with Society.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

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

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

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

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 Charles Maurice Davies

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

From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson