instruct
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The administration didn’t instruct health officials to approve Replimune’s drug, and the White House has since handed the reins to the FDA, people familiar with the events said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
I then instruct the fact-checker to build a table that lists all the facts it’s checking and mark each one as “true,” “false,” “ambiguous” or “unsupported.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 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
He noted that recipients of a blind trust can’t instruct the trustee in asset management.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing instruct
"The Crucible" -- Vocabulary from all 4 Acts
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Words to Know and Academic Words, Unit 5
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