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So, for instance, the virtual safety car lasts at least one full lap.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

If you’re going with flowers, sometimes it’s better to send them after the fact—for instance, if you’re invited on a private plane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

A while back, for instance, Friday Ashlie decided Monday Ashlie would make banana leaf-wrapped fish.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Morgentaler describes getting calls “all the time”—for instance, from men completely unable to find a physician to prescribe testosterone therapy.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

For instance, this morning she was saying “Gack!” over and over, which probably meant, “Look at that mysterious figure emerging from the fog!”

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

The firm started more frequently managing partners out or reducing their equity in some instances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

In a lot of instances, they agree with what he’s doing.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

There are no other known instances of a serving US president giving cash gifts to staffers at the White House.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“They all kind of dealt with different characters trying to address the unknown or people or instances they’re not familiar with,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest.

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

That landscape painting may be of considerable value in assisting scientific exploration is instanced by an anecdote related to the writer by a geological friend.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett

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 John Calvin Reed

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

The smile, and this instancing by the girl-mother of her own tiny flesh and blood affected me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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

He proved his wonderful theory by instancing a child playing with its mother, a symphony of Beethoven, and the life of Socrates!

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce