instruction

noun

in-ˈstrək-shən How to pronounce instruction (audio)
Definition of instructionnext
1
as in edict
a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned needed an administrative assistant who was good at following instructions

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2
as in teaching
the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another the view that the instruction of our nation's youth should be our highest priority

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Recent Examples of instruction The instructions directed employees to install a non-existent Python package from PyPI. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026 Wilson, whose training school already requires a parent or guardian to sign minors into a class, hopes the change encourages more young riders to seek professional instruction. — Tori Mason, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Iran claims the Strait of Hormuz is under its control and has frequently attacked vessels that do not adhere to its instructions. — Salma Arafa, CNN Money, 30 July 2026 Instead of transmitting long streams of digital instructions, the system represents data as a small number of microwave pulse tokens that preserve the relationships between different pieces of data. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for instruction
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instruction
  1. edict
  2. teaching
  3. direction
  4. education
  5. order
  6. schooling
  7. directive
  8. injunction
Noun
  • Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse The highly agile Getty shooter Alan Crowhurst has done us a great favor by bringing concrete cloakroom evidence of the many social and administrative challenges that the (famous) Royal Ascot costume edicts require in order to be properly met.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The memorandum includes a pledge by Iran to never purchase or construct nuclear weapons — a vow the Islamic Republic has made multiple times before, including by signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in a religious edict issued by the late supreme leader and in the Obama-era nuclear accord.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Definition of edict
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  • New offensive coordinator Gordon Sammis also made sure to use the moment as a teaching opportunity.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026
  • While Rignol had argued largely over the use of tools like GPTZero, Rouwenhorst made clear that his teaching team had multiple reasons for concern.
    — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Definition of teaching
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  • The Azure DevOps case makes the same point from the other direction.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • When the containers opened, the butterflies scattered in every direction.
    — Sophia Buonpane, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of direction
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  • Some factors outside of districts’ control, such as the declining birth rate and competition with the private sector, could be contributing to this trend, according to local and state education leaders.
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 July 2026
  • Villalobos’ career spans thirty years in the school district with a brief interlude in the private sector, working for education technology companies.
    — Austin Horn July 30, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Definition of education
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  • Caminero has batted third in nearly half the team’s games (52) and has also been penciled in at the second spot in the order (35) as well as cleanup (23).
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, city staff could first more narrowly issue an order to repair a dilapidated historic building and then expedite approval for those repairs on the back end, without needing a hearing through the Historic Preservation Commission.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of order
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  • Mandarin is the language of formal schooling in China since middle school, and the result, as Li describes it, is a generation that speaks its ancestral dialect with growing unfamiliarity.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2026
  • Fauci has described the principles that drive him—public service, integrity, clarity of thought and speech—as the yield of his Jesuit schooling.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Definition of schooling
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  • Two weeks earlier, Anthropic had to disable access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with an export control directive that was issued by the Commerce Department.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 20 July 2026
  • Sachin Sharma, a deputy commissioner of police, said Wangchuk’s hospitalization was carried out following medical advice and a court directive.
    — Aijaz Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
Definition of directive
Noun
  • Another is Judge Sweeney bypassing a temporary restraining order (TRO) to issue a more lasting preliminary injunction (PI).
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Washington, who played last season at Vanderbilt, was the lead plaintiff in the complaint filed July 6 by the Texas Trial Group seeking the injunction.
    — Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of injunction

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