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for in·stance

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. for example, for instance, e.g.adverb

    as an example

    "take ribbon snakes, for example"

Wiktionary

  1. for instanceadverb

    as an example

ChatGPT

  1. for instance

    "For instance" is a phrase typically used to introduce an example or more specific explanation for a general statement or concept. It serves to illustrate or clarify the point or argument that has been made.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'for instance' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1452

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'for instance' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1316

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of for instance in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of for instance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of for instance in a Sentence

  1. Ryan Hyer:

    Every time I close my eyes, I picture her suffering and then I picture her laying in this coffin, i still see her smiling and laughing in my head and I would assume that smile and laughter turned to pain and suffering in that instance.

  2. Omarosa Manigault Newman:

    I've never seen an instance when the President is so detached from the reality of what's going on.

  3. Sylvia Ashton-Warner:

    No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

  4. John Rood:

    President Putin has visited The White House before. President Putin's visited the United States before. For instance, when I served in The White House, under George W. Bush, he came to President Bush's home in Crawford, Texas. He also went fishing with him in Kennebunkport, Maine. He went to George H.W.'s home. It isn't especially noteworthy to me.

  5. Manuel Roxas:

    The cooperation of our people was very noticeable, we did not see, for instance, price increases, hoarding and looting of shops and petrol stations.


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