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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
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
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
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
He peppered his conversation with cryptic references to how much money he made, for instance.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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 only been three instances on record of a player completing 100 or more passes in a World Cup final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I can only hope this is one of those instances that he would call “getting messy for the greater good.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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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
I have mentioned but three modes of force, and have instanced but a limited number of uses to which electricity may be turned.
From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
It would, perhaps, not seem improper to refer the class of carving instanced by the three cuts, next following, to the Typhon myth.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
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 Remington, Frederic
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
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
I speak now of no exceptional, but of general cases, instancing only the representative of the highest class of Southern men.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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