How to Use instantiate in a Sentence

instantiate

verb
  • Agents should be instantiated with the fewest permissions necessary to do their jobs.
    — Michael Nicosia, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • He feels burned by his efforts to instantiate popular sovereignty.
    — Shikha Dalmia, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Other works by Paglen physically instantiate his arguments beyond what writing alone can do.
    — Louis Bury, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026
  • Here, the sado-sensual yearning of the Confederacy to instantiate itself through the fetishes and reliquaries of figurative sculpture is shown as hollow, impotent, all too discomfiting, and very real.
    — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Don’t say that your generic generative AI instantiates professional quality therapy, such as brazenly blabbing so in your marketing materials.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Provision and register agent identities when instantiated and decommission them immediately after use.
    — Eric Olden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Harwicz’s novels are more hallucinatory than supernatural—but a more provocative distinction between her books and others in this semi-subgenre is that, for her characters, motherhood does not cause animal rage and instability so much as instantiate them.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Silicon Valley insisted that their tools could finally eliminate uncertainty and subjectivity from juridical decision and instantiate a perfectly mathematical official antiracism in criminal justice.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026

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