v represent by an instance
This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect
v 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
Many, not only extreme pacifists, will object to this strategy of resistance as a perpetuation of values that we should wish to replace rather than instantiate.
Many, not only extreme pacifists, will object to this strategy of resistance as a perpetuation of values that we should wish to replace rather than instantiate.