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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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For instance, Colossus 2, which is part of the wider Colossus campus, will house hundreds of thousands of advanced AI chips made by tech giant Nvidia.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The CFAA, for instance, has a provision for “reckless damage”—but it still requires a human to have intentionally accessed a computer without permission in the first place.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

From 2022 to 2025, for instance, productivity rose by an average annual rate of 2.4%, compared to a 1.4% rate in the five years before the 2020 onset of the pandemic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The most recent instance of this involves the East Potomac Golf Links, a historic golf course Trump wishes to redesign but has faced legal setbacks after hundreds of trees were cut down for the project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

For instance, the number two comes before the number three and after the number one; nowhere else makes any sense.

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

Faugno said that instances of AI agents going rogue or breaking containment, most notably the hack of Hugging Face by OpenAI internal agents, demonstrate the need for a focused approach to agentic security and access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

They said housemates are monitored 24 hours a day and "any instances of inappropriate behaviour are responded to appropriately".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

In instances where those voters’ birthplace was “meaningfully reported, 38.9% indicate that they were born in the United States, which is strong evidence of citizenship,” Flores wrote, while 71.2% showed no record of ever voting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The combinations produced more than 100 instances in which a sweetener's effect on bacterial growth changed in the presence of another substance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

And in both instances, Jefferson managed to convince himself that these apparent contradictions were, well, merely apparent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

The Ape succouring the Fox is also instanced at Windsor.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge

We have instanced the horse, who endowed with the memory of locality, starts when passing by the same spot where he had started before.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

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

In this way Gilgamesh proceeds to upbraid the goddess, instancing, in addition, her cruel treatment of a shepherd, and apparently also of a giant, whom she changed to a dwarf.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

It were easy to proceed from Maine to California instancing the remote centuries that are daily colliding within our domain, but this is enough to show how little we cohere in opinions.

From Red Men and White by Frederic Remington

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

I cannot forbear instancing a few of these, because it may be of some use to those who shall have it in their power to be more cautious for the future.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Temple Scott


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