INSTANCIES Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

instancies

noun

plural of instancy

as in exigencies

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Relevance

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back burners

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Noun

Potential finalists will be notified via email and will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, License of Work and Release of Liability/Publicity within three (3) days of date of notification, or a shorter time if required by exigencies, or a runner-up may be selected.

— Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
The exigencies of the Revolution lead to promising more people representation.

— KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

Definition of exigencies

Noun

One woman went to police, but the brothers appear to have faced no consequences.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
The hopeful part is the part where the people who are dealing with the consequences of that look toward their community, look toward their friends, look toward the people around them for support, for help, for unity—all of those sorts of things.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of consequences

Noun

The port at Columbus, New Mexico, is the third to resume Mexican cattle imports under new safeguards, which include tests, shots and inspections that happen before an animal even gets close to the border.

— Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
According to Perpetua, there has been no commercial tungsten mining in the United States since 2015, leaving the country reliant on imports from a limited number of suppliers.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of imports

Noun

For many, a place remembered for its scenery also serves as a backdrop for personal moments of grief, reflection or healing, the survey said.

— Gagandeep Singh, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
But a few geological moments after the Laurentide sheet started re-expanding, humanity entered the chat.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of moments

Noun

Bezos spent a lot of effort, and magnitudes of capital, building a proud, sleek, global machine for frictionless selling.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
There’s a phenomenon known as the Streisand effect, when attempts to hide or censor something draw magnitudes more attention to it.

— Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of magnitudes

Noun

And certainly those subjects could be, in other hands, a vehicle for fleeing the urgencies of the here and now.

— Robert P. Baird, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
That there is no need to fill consciousness at all moments with the artificial urgencies of screens, of emails, of texts, of social media; the real urgencies of the bright-eyed woodpecker above my head will always be vastly more interesting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026

Definition of urgencies

Noun

Keep a tight core, a straight back and a slight bend in your knees, with the weights hanging straight down, palms facing one another.

— Sarah Stiefvater, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2026
Steered models deleted their own weights 75% of the time and another model’s weights 58% of the time.

— Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

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