substantiating

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All things being equal, realizing, delivering, instantiating, imagining the significant ideas of the next one hundred or two hundred years will be – objectively – more difficult than those of the past.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2021

They are different from graffiti, which to my eyes is egocentric and monotone, mostly instantiating the will of the tagger over and over again.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020

When we set the rules for membership on scientific advisory boards and suggest that one form of conflict might be more or less important than another, we’re instantiating values.

From Slate • May 16, 2017

“The Virgin Suicides” does a wonderful job both exploring and instantiating this discomfort, but for me, the most powerful articulation of it is the Steven Millhauser story, “The Sisterhood of the Night.”

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2017

In 1968, in a showroom decorated like a 19-century saloon, Krause unveiled an appliance instantiating an enduring fetish of the 21.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2013