Verb
- 1. instantiate, represent
- usage: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
- 2. instantiate, detect, observe, find, discover, notice
- usage: 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"
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