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[in-stuhns] / ˈɪn stəns /




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For instance, G 203-47's red dwarf rotates once every 100 or so days, but orbits its white dwarf every 14.9 days, meaning they are not tidally synced.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

It was just the latest instance of controversy around the instant-replay technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

The number of open jobs, for instance, jumped to a two-year high of 7.6 million in May, government statistics show.

From MarketWatch Jul. 11, 2026

Newport Beach’s Police Assn. blamed social media for a viral “TikTok takeover,” though in that instance, it’s unknown how many posts were made or how the organizing took place.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

And although her father just might have been right in this instance, Clare was growing very tired of that old badger’s influence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In rare instances, they can occur during heart surgery.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

“In the limited instances where prize fulfillment was affected by logistical or operational issues, we are taking steps to ensure participants receive the prizes or equivalent value to which they were entitled,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Because Lord knows this team has needed him in so many instances the last few years.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

The NCA was notified about the payments as part of the SARs programme, which alerts law enforcement to potential instances of money laundering.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

The examples are not so much metaphors or analogies as they are actual instances of the phenomena he is explaining, and they are instances that readers can see with their own eyes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Indeed, their zeal sometimes outran their discretion, as instanced in their bold capture of Sir Joseph Banks, who was collecting natural history specimens in the wilds.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

Here we are brought face to face again with those same persons whom I have already instanced.

From Search-Light Letters by Grant, Robert

He had to show what he knew of publishers, instancing the Longmans. 

From George Borrow in East Anglia by Dutt, William A. (William Alfred)

Once I spoke to an Officer high up in the Army of this matter, instancing, amongst other things, its brass bands and loud-voiced preaching at street corners.

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider

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 Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)

He illustrates it by instancing the absence of a developed mode in Sanscrit, and maintains that in the creators of that tongue the conception of modality was never truly felt and distinguished from tense.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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 Remington, Frederic




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