as in to embody
to represent in visible form
his imposing mansion is intended to instantiate for visitors his staggering success as an entrepreneur
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Recent Examples of instantiate
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
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
Born in a time and place of unadulterated optimism, this hybrid figure of masculinity was a template of superhuman possibility, which Lissitzky imagined would be even more compelling when the drawing was instantiated as an artificial performer.
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Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Are the humanities as they are currently instantiated in the American university system actually worth the Faustian bargains we are forced to make to keep them?
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Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
In a sense, starting internally and drawing inspiration from the external world around her, her mother instantiated an understanding of beauty that captured the core of an individual.
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Essence,
17 Dec. 2025
In other words, our intelligence is designed as an uncertainty-minimization function, and this is instantiated as a set of mental states (gears) controlled by the blue dot, LC network.
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Marcus Weldon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
He feels burned by his efforts to instantiate popular sovereignty.
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Shikha Dalmia,
Washington Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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
Louis Bury,
ARTnews.com,
1 May 2026
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.
—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
Born in a time and place of unadulterated optimism, this hybrid figure of masculinity was a template of superhuman possibility, which Lissitzky imagined would be even more compelling when the drawing was instantiated as an artificial performer.
—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2026
Are the humanities as they are currently instantiated in the American university system actually worth the Faustian bargains we are forced to make to keep them?
—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
In a sense, starting internally and drawing inspiration from the external world around her, her mother instantiated an understanding of beauty that captured the core of an individual.
—
Essence,
17 Dec. 2025
In other words, our intelligence is designed as an uncertainty-minimization function, and this is instantiated as a set of mental states (gears) controlled by the blue dot, LC network.
—
Marcus Weldon,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Nov. 2025
He feels burned by his efforts to instantiate popular sovereignty.
—
Shikha Dalmia,
Washington Post,
13 Oct. 2025
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.
—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for instantiate
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Wandering markets, eating at food stalls, sitting among locals and fellow travelers at the restaurants that embody a city.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, 41, continues to defy time at the World Cup, embodying the finite nature of elite careers.
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Witnesses expressed shock over the incident, with one man arriving to his Walmart to shop and finding the parking lot covered in crime scene tape.
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The daycare later released a statement expressing condolences and pledging support for the family.
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Injury recovery workouts often incorporate ankle weights to slowly rebuild strength.
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The aircraft’s fuel system and hydraulics also incorporate components from F-16 and F-18 fighter jets.
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This legislation is arriving not because consumers demanded it, but because the attempt at collective pushes for ESG failed to manifest.
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Rabies is preventable if this regimen is administered quickly but is almost invariably fatal once symptoms manifest.
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