How to Use instantiate in a Sentence
instantiate
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He feels burned by his efforts to instantiate popular sovereignty.
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Shikha Dalmia,
Washington Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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Other works by Paglen physically instantiate his arguments beyond what writing alone can do.
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Louis Bury,
ARTnews.com,
1 May 2026
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Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.
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Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Don’t say that your generic generative AI instantiates professional quality therapy, such as brazenly blabbing so in your marketing materials.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Provision and register agent identities when instantiated and decommission them immediately after use.
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Eric Olden,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Harwicz’s novels are more hallucinatory than supernatural—but a more provocative distinction between her books and others in this semi-subgenre is that, for her characters, motherhood does not cause animal rage and instability so much as instantiate them.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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