"instantiating" in the verb sense
1. instantiate
represent by an instance
"This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
2. instantiate
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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