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Treasury Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier, who led a recent inquiry into student loans, said some information about repayments was "misleading", including one instance where they were compared to the "cost of a daily coffee".
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Some of his clients’ parents provide an intrafamily loan, for instance, where instead of a mortgage, the buyer uses family money to finance the purchase.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Some of the Denisovan-derived variants in Papuan genomes, for instance, appear to influence immune function.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
A recent Facebook post from first lady Melania Trump’s account—announcing a computing challenge for students—referred to AI instead of SI in one instance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
For instance, I knew right off the bat that Arnold, my stockbroker, and Pasqual, my lawn-mowing business partner, were good guys.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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Richard Horne, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there were a couple of instances in the UK where "vulnerable technology has been exploited" after the cyber-attacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
This week the president offered a $1 million reward to any American who reports proven instances of fraud.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
In some instances, investors have been mightily rewarded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
“There have been numerous instances of fraud and corruption proliferating unabated within the homelessness-industrial complex,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
In both instances, I’d reveled in the soft air on my skin and the simple buoyancy I felt anytime I got close to the ocean.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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As such, players can expect to wait longer than normal to log into game servers, visit new Endwalker specific areas, and experience instanced content-like duties.
From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021
The FX we’d used earlier were now composed of millions of these instanced pieces, and she was having a hard time loading them all because it took up so much memory.
From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019
World and all the other potential character builds and instanced stories in the offing.
From Time ● Sep. 11, 2012
Among these may be instanced Montalembert's "Monks of the West" and Brown's "History of the printing press in Venice," previously cited.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
I have mentioned but three modes of force, and have instanced but a limited number of uses to which electricity may be turned.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The Vanderpools were sure of this and the Englishman, instancing India, became quite eloquent.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
He had to show what he knew of publishers, instancing the Longmans.
From George Borrow in East Anglia by William A. (William Alfred) Dutt
Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various
This statement is truer than his later remark21 that fairies and other superhuman creations of fancy are substituted for animals, instancing our theme as such a case.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould
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