Definition of "instances" []

• Plural form of instance. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of instance. (verb)

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• "America's entry into the war was marked by failures and close calls because our troops were not "ready", which in some instances is code for "the ones who couldn't become killers had not yet been weeded out"."
• "Also on Monday—before the latest controller misstep was disclosed—Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood repeated, in an interview on CNN, that "controllers need to take personal responsibility" to correct what he called instances of "some very bad behavior.""
• "A higher level statistical tendency that creates more individual instances is of more concern than any individual instance."