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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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The tariffs, for instance, made it more costly for businesses to obtain supplies.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

Hesitancy in the first instance to fight for the loose ball, weakness in the second instance when trying to prevent the cross and then defensive disorganisation and bewilderment in the end.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Adam Arkin, who plays one of several dubious attorneys circling the hostage-taking, directs half the series and uses, playfully enough, techniques from the period he’s portraying—split screens, for instance, sometimes triple and quadruple.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

For instance, Michigan has established a pilot program to place mobile health unit vans in at-risk areas.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

Key elements of the invasion—moving ships into forward positions, for instance, and canceling leaves for soldiers—kept getting postponed.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Other AI systems have recently reported similar instances of breaches.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Lallemand shared the data with his congressman, Rep. George Latimer, highlighting how the FAA in previous instances has prescribed routes that avoid residential areas.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

On Wednesday, OpenAI disclosed six new instances of its AI agents hiding their tracks, spoofing data and writing instructions to free themselves from constraints to escape the company’s control.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

The revelation came in a blog post late Wednesday from the AI giant, which shared what it called a “new framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing instances of model misalignment.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

Of course, one seeks to provide a general, sustained service to one's employer, the value of which could never be reduced to a number of specific instances - such as that concerning Lord Halifax.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

If, an hour before, he had been asked what kind of life came nearest his ideal, perhaps he would have replied, "The literary life," and he would have instanced Vickars.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

The next day I instanced a rather apt example.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole 85 biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, and epochs of history, in bulk.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Landgraf supports his position by instancing similarities of expression in the Bell.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton

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

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

The one produced a hundred instances of the enlarging and quickening of men’s minds, the other replied by instancing vulgarities, distortions, wide acceptance of nonsense.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells




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