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Characters keep clunkily reciting statistics and facts everyone in the room would already know, solely to instruct the audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Wright used the doorbell camera's remote intercom function to instruct the group how to enter the house and they were able to pull her to safety.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The San Francisco company, founded in 2022, enables engineers to instruct software in English to run coding tasks autonomously.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The Supreme Court disagreed, writing Monday that “no clearly established federal law required the trial court to instruct the jury” about that case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

So if this book doesn’t instruct about punctuation, what does it do?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

The result is a personalised anti-cancer jab which is specific to the patient's tumour and instructs the immune system to recognise and attack any tumour cells that remain.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The memorandum instructs banks to file suspicious activity reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the U.S. government’s financial intelligence unit.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

When Little John struggles to describe his dream girl, Robin instructs his protegee to sketch an image with words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The state even instructs county officials to accept sample ballots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

“Now look in the corner,” he instructs me.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan instructed the council to rewrite its draft policy, which he termed “overly onerous and archaic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Journalists on board reported that they were repeatedly instructed to keep their window blinds down, a "not uncommon" practice McDonald said shows that steps were still being taken to protect the passengers.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

He specifically instructed NOAA, which is under his purview, to take offshore oil production, pipeline maintenance, spaceport infrastructure, desalination projects and undersea cables into consideration, citing national priorities and economic interests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some participants were instructed to meet that target using whole fruits and vegetables alone.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Tomorrow morning, come to the river’s edge, where the stepping stones are,” he instructed her.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

They then select mutations unique to the patient’s cancer to incorporate into an mRNA molecule, which provides the genetic code instructing cells to produce proteins with those mutations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

It’s not necessarily easy for entire school districts to shift to a new standard, given that teachers have been instructing using these calculators for years.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

However, it was forced to issue a formal warning to Israeli broadcaster Kan in the lead-up to the competition after its contestant released videos instructing fans to "vote 10 times for Israel".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Rather than directly instructing participants to sit in a particular way, the team altered the environment so that posture changed without the participants knowing why.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

To that end, we retained William Aron-sohn, as instructing attorney or barrister, who was head of one of the oldest law firms in Johannesburg.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela