instruct
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The hidden prompts could instruct the app to scan a company’s internal systems for sensitive files and transmit them to the attacker’s server.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
For example, users might instruct their agents to root out risks created by being overly concentrated in one part of the market, or monitor a basket of promising semiconductor stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 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
The breakthrough only came 12 years later, when Appeal was able to instruct scientists to take the sample and look again.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
I, as an attorney, could instruct him, but I was not technically permitted to address the court, and neither were any of the other defendants.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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