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Why should this family of vehicles look the same when, for instance, they don’t even have engines?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

In this instance, the son would be a permissible donor, but his father would not be.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

For instance, the researchers built a bidirectional switch using two transistors that detect OC 12.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

For instance, Steinem reveals she finds joy in reality TV, including “Dance Moms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

For instance, take the above equation and change the – sign into a + sign.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In some instances, combined emissions from data center clusters exceeded the pollution associated with a natural gas power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

He then claims they have done it several times before, in exchanges bleeped out but which appear to refer to other instances where this mechanism had been used before.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

There are instances where you might be able to tap into old accounts with this rule.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

But Martinez, who has worked for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for 39 years, said she could not recall any previous instances where the country music singer’s star was vandalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

For the Romans did in these instances what all wise princes must do: they must be on their guard not only against existing dangers but also against future disturbances, and try diligently to prevent them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

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 Ape succouring the Fox is also instanced at Windsor.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge

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

From Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson

I speak now of no exceptional, but of general cases, instancing only the representative of the highest class of Southern men.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young parvenu, and a musician.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

He is perhaps the same person who remarked on the late Mr. Robertson's fondness for monosyllables as titles for his plays, and after instancing Caste, Ours, and School, ended his list with Society.

From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley

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