Thesaurus results for INSTANTIATION

instantiation

noun

as in manifestation

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) a generation that regarded Susan Sontag as the instantiation of the modern urban intellectual

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Recent Examples of instantiation In the interview, De Frietas says the campaign was beta-tested with some participants receiving one version of the AI instantiation, and others receiving the other. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2026 The Voting Rights Act was the true instantiation of the Declaration of Independence. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026

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One manifestation of that shift is a Holiday Inn Express ad campaign that ran for more than a decade beginning in 1998 and showed ordinary people completing complex tasks such as brain surgery that were far outside their professional expertise.

— Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
The dropping/suspension was the beginning of the end, or at least the most public manifestation of the beginning of the end.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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The optical payload successfully demonstrated angles-only navigation using live-feed images and an algorithm embedded within its payload electronics, enabling closed-loop control between the payload and the spacecraft, as per the release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
But by halftime, the image escaped those few inches as the Pride of the Southland Band gave Parton’s most enduring symbol a much larger stage.

— Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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But for this film incarnation of Graham’s story, Boyle wanted an Australian to portray the man labelled the ‘Dirty Digger’.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
The magazine’s modern incarnation covers bird migrations and competitive stone skipping, oversized roadside attractions and how to grow roses.

— HubSpot, HubSpot, 1 Sep. 2026

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