instruct
Example Sentences
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Dr Kennedy said Lady Donaldson is in no fit state to instruct her lawyers, follow proceedings or give evidence.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Musk testified earlier in the week that while he did instruct Birchall to file the paperwork, it was just “in case it was needed, but it turned out not to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has had to instruct some of its AI tools to stop talking about "goblins", after finding the term had randomly crept into responses.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Geofence warrants instruct technology companies to turn over data about any of their users who passed through a given geographic radius during a particular window of time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Sandi remembered when the famous Doctor Fanning and his wife had come down to instruct the country's leading doctors on new procedures for heart surgery.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing instruct
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