Recent Examples on the WebIn cases where a hematoma is located near the brain, for instance, blood can collect between the covering of the brain (called the dura mater) and the surface of the brain.—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024 If two spouses are doctors, for instance, the woman often is expected to take care of cooking and child-rearing duties while her husband puts in extra hours at work to advance his career.—Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 22 Apr. 2024 San Francisco, for instance, allows resident noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections, and some cities in Maryland and Vermont allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.—Miles Parks, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024 This extends, for instance, to giving election deniers their say — though probably not for the same reasons someone like Watters might.—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024 The individual who was infected in Colorado in 2022, for instance, had direct exposure to birds and to culling poultry.
CNN: Can bird flu be transmitted from person to person?—Katia Hetter, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024 In 2022, for instance, the US limited the country’s access to the chips and chipmaking technology needed to develop the most advanced AI algorithms.—Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024 In Britain, for instance, there was some outrage when the protagonist of an otherwise faithful Agatha Christie adaptation was revised to be a Nigerian immigrant.—Kabir Chibber, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024 When speak about Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who's prosecuting the Georgia election fraud case against Trump, the former president mocked her name during the Ohio rally, for instance.—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
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