instance
noun
a case or occurrence of anything.
instanced
Example Sentences
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As such, players can expect to wait longer than normal to log into game servers, visit new Endwalker specific areas, and experience instanced content-like duties.
From The Verge ● Nov. 30, 2021
The FX we’d used earlier were now composed of millions of these instanced pieces, and she was having a hard time loading them all because it took up so much memory.
From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019
World and all the other potential character builds and instanced stories in the offing.
From Time ● Sep. 11, 2012
The Ape succouring the Fox is also instanced at Windsor.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
Why, there were—he instanced names, well-known ones, of people who, he said, had gone and come back openly, frankly, determined demonstrators for the public good of the natural.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
