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instantiate
Verb
- find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
- The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect
- The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect
- represent by an instance
- This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect
- This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect