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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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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

Importantly, integrating Claude into Salesforce’s platform causes Salesforce to cede control of its user interface layer in some ways; the company must give up control of where users access Salesforce data from, for instance.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

None of the misuse cases involved Claude Fable or the powerful Mythos-class models, with the exception of one instance of distillation - the process for training smaller AI models using larger, more expensive models.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

In hospitals in which the reimbursement rates for appendectomies ran higher, for instance, the surgeons removed more appendixes.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

In some instances, people were told they would be carrying suitcases full of clothes, gold or cash.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Reliable figures on the number of people fired or disciplined are hard to come by, but a Reuters tally last November found more than 600 instances.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

“The instances of ‘hasty reading’—in which students read quickly but inaccurately—nearly doubled to 9% between 2018 and 2025.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

Then the occultatio: “I pass over older instances, such as how...”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

However, except of late, a precedent of this practice can hardly be instanced among the sufferers of Christ in former times, but, on the contrary, many have refused such offers.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

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

Give me leave to show the inimitable softness and sweetness of the English Tongue, only by instancing in one Word.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney

We need not be afraid of instancing in the most favourable.

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

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

And after instancing a number of these stories "which deserve the gravest condemnation," he enjoins that God must be represented as he is in reality.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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




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