instrumental
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She was instrumental in expanding Netflix’s reach internationally and the streamer’s push into live events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Pillay's work had been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted", said the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
He has been instrumental in implementing her strategy of "de-demonisation" to try and rid the party of the toxic legacy of its founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was openly antisemitic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"It was really just a combination of better samples, instrumental advantage and a more concerted effort. All of those things came together," Renne added.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was instrumental in establishing the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Both the Smiths and mariachi music can drive even the most macho Mexican man to tears with their poetic lyrics and layered instrumentals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
While past records often featured such incense-perfumed instrumentals as connecting interludes, here the background has been moved to the front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Dennis Hopper” is a record of 25 interconnected songs, stories and instrumentals that explain who Dennis Hopper was, and why he’s worthy of this project.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
The album also features a pair of atmospheric instrumentals, “Space 1” and “Space 2,” co-written by the jammers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
Hence, then, in the and why we have instrumental ablatives, or, simply, instrumentals.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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