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He liked the fresh, colorful and sensual image that a mango instilled, and the universality of a word recognizable in many languages without translation.

In economically depressed Roma, Texas, Al Cortinas instilled pride in his students by making them dress up for concerts—and kept a supply of ties on hand for any boy who didn’t own one.

Last year, Xi implicitly acknowledged the purges when he ordered the military to launch an indoctrination drive to instill loyalty and fervor among its 2 million personnel.

If anything, those years instilled in me a glowy kind of financial confidence.

She told Paper that she aims to instill a hardworking mentality in her children.

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