INSTANCIES Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

instancies

noun

plural of instancy

as in exigencies

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Noun

Potential finalists will be notified via email and will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, License of Work and Release of Liability/Publicity within three (3) days of date of notification, or a shorter time if required by exigencies, or a runner-up may be selected.

— Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
The exigencies of the Revolution lead to promising more people representation.

— KEN BURNS, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026

Definition of exigencies

Noun

The Cornell 7 lawsuit refers to the legal document filed by an unnamed Cornell University student who accused seven men of raping and drugging her at a frat house party in October 2024 — and faced no legal consequences.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
But since that process can take years, those decisions can still have important real-world consequences.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of consequences

Noun

The South Asian country meets nearly 85% of its fuel needs via imports, with the Strait of Hormuz being a key supply route before the war.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
But should the trade deficit close and exports outnumber imports, foreign investment would also taper, Hassan suggested.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of imports

Noun

But moments before the nosedive, passengers seated near the front of the plane heard sounds of a fight inside the cockpit, said passenger Daniel Schlichter, who was seated in the second row.

— SAM MEDNICK, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Those moments in people’s careers are the beginning of feeling truly confident about yourself.

— Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of moments

Noun

There’s a phenomenon known as the Streisand effect, when attempts to hide or censor something draw magnitudes more attention to it.

— Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2026
The macroeconomic consequences go well beyond any event in history, both in terms of magnitudes and in terms of the speed at which change happens.

— Scott Horsley, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of magnitudes

Noun

And certainly those subjects could be, in other hands, a vehicle for fleeing the urgencies of the here and now.

— Robert P. Baird, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2026
That there is no need to fill consciousness at all moments with the artificial urgencies of screens, of emails, of texts, of social media; the real urgencies of the bright-eyed woodpecker above my head will always be vastly more interesting.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026

Definition of urgencies

Noun

However, the model’s final hardware requirements, downloadable weights, and independent benchmark results were not publicly available at the time of the announcement.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
During its original heyday, the Alite series dipped to weights below 400 lb (181 kg) and was even popular for motorcycle camping.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Oct. 2026

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