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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
instruct .
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Neither Khalif nor his wife (who was given a thimerosal-containing flu shot while pregnant, even though the label instructed the doctor to administer the shot during pregnancy, "only when medically necessary"), had ever heard of autism until the day their son was diagnosed.
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Neither Khalif nor his wife (who was given a thimerosal-containing flu shot while pregnant, even though the label instructed the doctor to administer the shot during pregnancy, "only when medically necessary"), had ever heard of autism until the day their son was diagnosed.
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Neither Khalif nor his wife (who was given a thimerosal-containing flu shot while pregnant, even though the label instructed the doctor to administer the shot during pregnancy, "only when medically necessary"), had ever heard of autism until the day their son was diagnosed.
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A few of these kids desperately need some notes like not talking during the performance and that drawing on the stage with chalk as instructed is different from banging on the stage with chalk during the music.
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A few of these kids desperately need some notes like not talking during the performance and that drawing on the stage with chalk as instructed is different from banging on the stage with chalk during the music.
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Indeed, Gaskin instructed men to approach sexual union as an act of "renunciation" in which they should "go right up to a real-life climax and hang there for a long time" without ejaculating, in order that their partner might experience orgasm.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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(Indeed, prompted by a question from Senator Clinton, Senator McCain instructed the Attorney General that we provided even the Viet Cong with full POW protections.)
Balkinization 2006
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The Virgin instructed him to pick roses from the usually sere and desolate hill and deliver them to Zumarraga as the sign.
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The Virgin instructed him to pick roses from the usually sere and desolate hill and deliver them to Zumarraga as the sign.
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The Captain instructed us to put up our hands, and two of the soldiers searched us.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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