instruct

You don’t enjoy clicking around a bunch looking for a table, so you instruct an agent to do it for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

If you do pay extra to speed up your loan payoff, instruct your lender to apply all extra funds directly to your principal balance immediately and to keep your next payment due date unchanged.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

Characters keep clunkily reciting statistics and facts everyone in the room would already know, solely to instruct the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

It is understood manager Thomas Tuchel is set to instruct his players to avoid jumping over the hoardings to ensure there is no repeat.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

“How could I do the thing that I must instruct her to never do, once she knows how to understand? That’s hypocrisy, is what.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The change request instructs servicers to complete the task within 15 to 45 days, the suit alleges, and yet borrowers are still seeing the debt appear on their credit reports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The result is a personalised anti-cancer jab which is specific to the patient's tumour and instructs the immune system to recognise and attack any tumour cells that remain.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The memorandum instructs banks to file suspicious activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. government’s financial intelligence unit.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Their lawsuit also claims that when an account is shut down for dangerous behavior, OpenAI instructs the individual on how to resume usage, including tips on how to circumvent the 30-day suspension period.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

“Turn around,” she instructs, and when I do, she loops the sash around my waist and ties it in the back with a wide bow.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Nathan is alleged to have instructed Case to write copy that would “follow along the lines of a purported ‘whistleblower’ narrative.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The agent who shot Garces Perez had been instructed to wear a body camera but wasn’t, which could make even an impartial investigation harder.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

“No employee is ever instructed to falsify, alter, or suppress data,” the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

If a patient gets a positive test, they are instructed to undergo a cancer work-up, whether that’s imaging or biopsies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Don’t worry about his trial,” the president instructed.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Given how precarious the slope was, the group decided Mingma G would hang back and monitor by drone, instructing the three climbers.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Burger King is instructing managers to staff front counters, while Wendy’s is reviewing its AI drive-through trials to improve service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

It’s not necessarily easy for entire school districts to shift to a new standard, given that teachers have been instructing using these calculators for years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rather than directly instructing participants to sit in a particular way, the team altered the environment so that posture changed without the participants knowing why.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

I think it’s unlikely he ever acknowledged that old Cray existed, but now that I’m such a nationwide problem, is he carefully instructing Thread what to do?

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins