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instance Noun

— An instance of something is a time or situation when it happens. In this particular instance, the computer was the problem, not the user. There have been many instances of cheating that were not caught.

instance

— noun (= case, example) an occurrence of something it was a case of bad judgment another instance occurred yesterday but there is always the famous example of the Smiths — noun (= example) an item of information that is typical of a class or group this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome there is an example on page 10 — verb (= exemplify) clarify by giving an example of

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example case time illustration sample occasion specimen model representative occurrence illustrate exemplify circumstance chance stroke moment item incident event echelon usage story statement situation show sense reference record proof point place person party paradigm opportunity issue insistence exemplar cause act account typify turn trip times thing teaser suggestion stage sound out

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Simple sentences

Japan is full of beautiful cities. Kyoto and Nara, for instance.
I want to go abroad, for instance, to Italy and Spain.
For instance, gauges, such as thermometers and barometers, are instruments.
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
Left-hand threads have now become unsual in mechanics but they can still be found on some objects, such as on bicycles' pedals, for instance.
It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.
For instance, bowing is peculiar to us, the Japanese.
This is an instance of modern British life.
A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke.
For instance, what would you have done if you were in my place?
Aluminium and glass are important materials in civil construction, even though not as important as steel and wood, for instance.
Still, Saint Petersburg is a mysterious city. Today, for instance, in the Moika River was found a professor from a local university with two severed female hands in a backpack.

Movie subtitles

And after the gathering they might, for instance, sneak into a barn and bewitch a cow.
Many women, for instance, confess that - transformed into cats - they soiled the altar during the night, while two devils in the shape of animals stood guard at the church door.
We remember for instance that the witch received nightly visitations by the Devil.
Uh- - Look there, for instance.
For instance, a fish can putter in water but not on land, because he'd be out of place.
For instance, we'll take mop rags.
Take that fellow right there, for instance.
I'm afraid in this instance, Mr. Rainsford. you may have to follow them.
For instance?
For instance, in the moonlight on a tropical island they might make any woman fall in love with any man.
What do you care for this, for instance?
Take that story there, for instance.
Take Abraham Lincoln for instance.
Now you take No. 1, for instance.
The capital, the plant, the machinery.. For instance, we'll take mop rags.
Now take this point, for instance.
For instance, where are the wives of all these natives?
What, for instance?
In this instance, repulsion wins hands down.
What for instance?
Look there, for instance. Hah!
YOUR EYES, FOR INSTANCE.
You, for instance!
For instance, one occasionally likes a drink.
You take number one, for instance.
Well, take the clothes, for instance.
Look, you're in New York, for instance.

News and current affairs

But few saw, for instance, the Artic ice cap melting as rapidly as now seems to be the case.
In this instance five key areas of uncertainty and risk exist.
Should, for instance, the early stages of Alzheimer's disease qualify?
For instance, the fuel efficiency of every automobile and truck is fixed, and most travel is non-discretionary.
Workers, for instance, who have much to lose if the central bank pursues an excessively tight policy, do not have a seat at the table.
Financial sanctions, for instance, discourage the development of a modern and transparent financial system, integrated with the rest of the world.
For instance, it assumes that terrorists and their supporters do not understand their own anger.
In each instance, the logic was impeccable.
For instance, while it is recognized that almost all countries need to undertake stimulus measures (we're all Keynesians now), many developing countries do not have the resources to do so.
For Americans the reserve role of the dollar is a potential threat, while for non-Americans it is yet another instance of an American neo-imperial quest for hegemony.
The same is true, for instance, for the derivatives trading system.
Turks in Germany, for instance, say they want to be neither Turkish nor German, neither pulled back into their culture nor pushed into a receiving a culture that rejects what they hold dear.
Thailand, for instance, established the Bangkok International Banking Facilities in the hope of becoming a regional financial center, despite the fact that local financial institutions were ill-prepared to handle massive flows of capital.
The attempt to implant free-market philosophy in Russia, for instance, proved catastrophic.
In this instance, it is impossible to pry them apart.
Indeed, we don't even know for certain whether this was such an instance.
So we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help - in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.
A Ugandan doctor working in Norway, for instance, cares little about the cost of a beer in Kampala.
Canada and the Philippines, for instance, have a well-functioning accord that protects the rights of temporary workers.
Quite apart from daily sunlight, for instance, Earth is bombarded by all sorts of other radiation from outside our solar system.
For instance, the energy consumption of every unit of Chinese industrial output is close to three times the global average.
It is obvious that the practice of pressing convicts into service on overseas projects has been instituted at the instance of the Chinese government.
But success in fighting corruption entails more than just good procurement procedures (avoiding, for instance, single-source non-competitive bidding).
For instance, in 2001, it took just one quarter for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back.

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