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verb

instantiate

represent by an instance

In a sentence

Six example sentences with instantiate, each labelled with its topic.

  • The template describes the server in the abstract; the deploy script instantiates it thirty times, one machine per region.

    Technology

  • Plato held that every wooden chair merely instantiates a perfect form of chair existing apart from any particular one.

    Philosophy

  • The manifesto stayed theory until the 1912 canvas instantiated it, showing in paint what the essays had only argued.

    Art

  • The famous marshmallow study instantiates delayed gratification so vividly that textbooks still open the chapter with it.

    Psychology

  • The 1932 snail case instantiates the duty of care so neatly that first-year students still learn the principle from it.

    Law

  • The glass pavilion instantiates the architect's whole theory of openness: no walls, no doors, and a roof that seems to float.

    Architecture

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