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Abraham Lincoln, for instance, evoked a biblical passage to frame the preamble’s emphasis on equality as a foundational American concept.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Cerebras shareholders, for instance, will get a chance to convert and sell 84 million Class B shares in August, then another 87 million shares in September and October—all before six months pass in mid-November.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

In other parts of the world these storms are given different names - for instance, typhoons in the north-west Pacific, near Japan and China, or cyclones in the Indian Ocean and around Australia.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The study found, for instance, that caregiving increased the probability of divorce by 2.7 percentage points for men versus 2.0 percentage points for women.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Still he thought there might be other survivors in underground places like his—the Air Force, for instance, was supposed to have several shelters, all equipped so that the men in them could last for months.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien