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Recent Examples of instruction An instruction sheet for the game is placed on every table, and the founders walk around the room to help out and answer questions as well. Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025 To qualify as religious release time, educational instruction must take place off campus, with parental permission and with no public funding. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 Keep reading for step-by-step instructions on how to buy Coachella tickets on each of these resale sites. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 17 Apr. 2025 The Fort Worth chapter of The Links Inc. started hosting a monthly Saturday program at Clifford Davis this school year known as STEM Now and Into the Future, which includes literacy and phonics instruction in addition to science, technology, engineering and math projects with help from experts. Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for instruction
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Noun
  • Rubio’s edict also could affect SDSU freshman center Thokbor Majak, who was born in South Sudan before attending school in Uganda and Senegal.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike previous commissions and councils, HESA was not the result of a presidential charge or a Congressional edict.
    David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In several cases, I was offered only one class at a time, not because of teaching demand, but because assigning more hours would have triggered additional administrative requirements under my state’s labor law.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Reading the results, on my living-room couch, turned out to be the most profound experience of my teaching career.
    D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • So, one way to fix this is, fertilizing in spring with a citrus fertilizer, according to label directions.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Hopkins said fire department personnel also monitor the outside air and wind direction, knowing that homes downwind are likely to smell the gas and call the fire department with concerns.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Many nonprofits work in these spaces, providing legal support or doing advocacy and education work.
    Annie Nova, CNBC, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Thaden's Lower School -- located directly south of Thaden's current campus -- will have a program blending outdoor education and the arts, according to a July 18 news release from Thaden.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The judge presiding over the case, Beverly Cannone, even issued an order barring supporters of either Read or O'Keefe from demonstrating within 200 feet of the courthouse.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • None of the men had orders of removal to El Salvador before they were deported to that country on March 31, according to the filings.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The bill creates a voucher-like program called education savings account, allowing parents to use $10,000 in state dollars to pay for their child’s private school education or home schooling.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Raised by an artist father—with plenty of gallery visits as well as creative schooling—Callis gravitated toward the unique artistic expression that is fashion.
    Darryn King, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her prosecution follows a broader directive from the Justice Department to pursue local officials who interfere with federal immigration enforcement amid Trump's immigration crackdown.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The directive, issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi March 14, provides the first public view of the specific implementation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act invoked to deport migrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • DuBose denied Libby's motion for a preliminary injunction Friday, ruling the process House Speaker Ryan Fecteau used to impose the sanction reflected the will of the majority of Maine House members.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Later that year, in July, Phoenix and his father signed a petition for injunction for domestic violence against his mother.
    Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Instruction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instruction. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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