instructions
Britishplural noun
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directions, orders, or recommended rules for guidance, use, etc
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law the facts and details relating to a case given by a client to his solicitor or by a solicitor to a barrister with directions to conduct the case
to take instructions
Example Sentences
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Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally exposing the underlying instructions it uses to direct Claude Code, the popular artificial-intelligence agent app that has won the company an edge with developers and businesses.
Each human cell contains about two meters of DNA, which carries the instructions needed to build proteins and control cellular processes.
From Science Daily
The justices sent the case back to the lower courts with instructions to apply more rigorous scrutiny to the law, which targets what is colloquially known as conversion therapy.
The justices sent the case back to the lower courts with instructions to apply more rigorous scrutiny to the law.
Giving a bot a long list of instructions will be easier than keeping track of whether it followed through correctly.
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