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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) (WordNet)

instantiate
v 1: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage
that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain
dialect"
2: 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"