instancenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɪn.stəns/us/ˈɪn.stəns/C1 a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that happens generally:
There have been several instances of violence at the school.
I don't usually side with the management, but in this instance I agree with what they're saying.
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- There have already been several instances of deadly violence in the past few weeks involving returning refugees.
- He noted that there have been instances in earthquakes when survivors were found after days of looking.
- Over a third of women who replied to the questionnaire cited instances of sexual harassment in the workplace.
- These companies don't have the people resources; in certain instances, they don't have the expertise.
- Over 20 instances of sexual misconduct are currently being investigated.
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Samples and examples
- advertisement
- aliquot
- archetype
- benchmark
- classic
- classical
- core
- cross-section
- for instance idiom
- forerunner
- illustration
- job
- original
- role model
- sample
- showpiece
- sort
- swatch
- taste
- taster
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for instance
instanceverb [ T ]
uk/ˈɪn.stəns/us/ˈɪn.stəns/UK formalto give something as an example:
She argued the need for legal reform and instanced several recent cases with grossly unfair verdicts.
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- resemble
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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