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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

As well as the growth in corporate bonds, other countries' debt is looking more attractive -- for instance, yields are rising in Japan as inflation has returned following decades of deflation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

They cooked up a plan to seek revenge upon the rating agencies, for instance.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Still, there were plenty of instances where my thumb found its limits: turning off the flash in the camera app, or typing the letter “A.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

As evidence, he invokes, throughout the book, numerous instances of one nation waging war on another, or assisting U.S. forces against rival tribes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Beale said there had been instances of guests running up and down the hallways, pressing all the buzzers in the stair and throwing things out the window onto the street.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Of the 55 instances that researchers examined in the 2017 study, seven athletes did not return to their sport.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

NOTE.—In a few instances pro- is changed into pur-, as purpose; into por-, as portray; and into pol-, as pollute.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

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

He instanced the few judicial officers, and the virtual impossibility of a native obtaining justice, owing to witnesses being compelled to travel long distances, either to Leopoldville or Boma.

From The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I have mentioned but three modes of force, and have instanced but a limited number of uses to which electricity may be turned.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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

What arguments in regard to a nation of forty-seven millions of people can be bolstered up by instancing the imperfect acquaintance of a Japanese pastry-cook with the English language?

From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery

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

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 smile, and this instancing by the girl-mother of her own tiny flesh and blood affected me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson


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