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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 inability to deal with a free-kick, the failure to pick up the goalscorer in the first instance and then multiple calamities in the concession of the second goal.

From BBC ● 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

In the past, he said his drones could maneuver to evade Russian air defenses, for instance, by going into a steep dive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

You couldn’t supply foreign warships with fuel, for instance, and you couldn’t ship guns to foreign armies.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yes, you can see two apps—or two instances of the same app—side by side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

In most instances, judges have said school officials may use “race-neutral” policies to achieve racial diversity.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Researchers found that in the instances where the woman was denied an abortion, she often resented her baby and failed to provide it with a good home.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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 doctor informed us that some forms of insanity ran that way, and instanced one particular case of a lady of education and refinement who came under his notice.

From The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House by Anonymous

That landscape painting may be of considerable value in assisting scientific exploration is instanced by an anecdote related to the writer by a geological friend.

From Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter by Ernest Govett

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

We need not be afraid of instancing in the most favourable.

From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

Give me leave to show the inimitable softness and sweetness of the English Tongue, only by instancing in one Word.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Thomas Purney

Eloquently Barry pleaded his unfitness, instancing his failure as a preacher in his last field.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor

In reply to his denunciations the suitors accuse Penelope of deluding them, instancing how she promised to choose a husband as soon as she had finished weaving a winding sheet for her father-in-law Laertes.

From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber