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instantiate

DEFINITIONS OF: instantiate

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v represent by an instance

“This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect”
Type of:
represent
be representative or typical for

v 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”
Type of:
detect, discover, find, notice, observe
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
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