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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of instance.

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Examples

  • The increase in the costliness of modern warfare may be best instanced from the navy.

    The Impossibility of War 1900

  • The game allows thousands of players to interact within the same world while using mostly "instanced" dungeons to create unique gaming experiences suited for both solo and group-minded players.

    WorthPlaying.com - All about games! Rainier 2010

  • The game allows thousands of players to interact within the same world while using mostly "instanced" dungeons to create unique gaming experiences suited for both solo and group-minded players.

    WorthPlaying.com - All about games! 2010

  • And that it was grave, I instanced his statement that he intended to stay and die on Endeavour

    Chapter 36 2010

  • A contemporaneous and remarkable shrinkage of a vast stretch of territory may be instanced in the Northland.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • Among its class-conscious members, men who recognize that the opening guns of the class struggle have been fired, may be instanced the following names: Hon.

    THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

  • They instanced case after case in their personal experience.

    THAT DEAD MEN RISE UP NEVER 2010

  • They instanced case after case in their personal experience.

    That Dead Men Rise Up Never 2010

  • There was grave talk about the bacillus of violence that infected all men who embraced socialism; and father, with his long and peaceful life, was instanced as a shining example of how the bacillus of violence worked.

    Chapter 11: The Great Adventure 2010

  • The two dancers, to cover their confusion, doubted his veracity and instanced his many well-known and notorious guilts of mendacity.

    CHAPTER III 2010

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