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The number of people who fit this bill is actually smaller than you might think; only 2% of Fidelity’s IRA customers make Roth conversions each year, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Some of the Denisovan-derived variants in Papuan genomes, for instance, appear to influence immune function.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
My colleagues at the Journal wrote, for instance, that if Sen. Elizabeth Warren becomes Senate Banking Committee chair, she’ll likely “haul in many chief executives for hearings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
In Monday's match, for instance, he latched on to Jarrad Branthwaite's flick-on but, when through on goal, made a poor connection with the ball and scuffed his shot.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“But in this instance I think you’ll find the name’s particularly appropriate.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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He argued in court filings that the messages to Nozell were in instances “inappropriate” or “crude,” but weren’t threats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Richard Horne, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there were a couple of instances in the UK where "vulnerable technology has been exploited" after the cyber-attacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
This week the president offered a $1 million reward to any American who reports proven instances of fraud.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
And in rare instances, what we see can be inexplicable—or downright terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
It is very possible there were a number of other instances of this sort which I have now forgotten.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
They instanced a woman who had been married to seven brothers in succession, all of whom had died.
From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Austin Holyoak
One little fellow, more than once instanced in this work, a single child brought up wholly by his mother, perpetrated his first fib when he was about twenty-two months old.
From Children's Ways by James Sully
He states also that the verse writer who aims at producing no illusion but addresses the understanding is not a poet, instancing Virgil when in the Georgics he describes a cow fit for breeding.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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
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 John Oxenham
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 Frederic Remington
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