Instance and Resort to

Instance

Instance verb - To give as an example.

Resort to and instance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Resort to" instead a verb "Instance".

Resort to

Resort to verb - To use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage.

Instance and resort to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instance" instead a verb "Resort to".

Both terms in one sentence

  • Film / Ip Man One notable instance of pummeling happens with Frank, who's so durable Ip had to resort to this.
    Source: Film / Ip Man
  • The printing press, for instance, was repeatedly independently discovered, and despite their best efforts the "gods" had to resort to using nuclear weapons against regions where forbidden technologies had become entrenched.
  • Fan Fic / Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Amusingly, or perhaps bizarrely, all but Ravenclaw start making fun of him when he gets worried about the implications of Parseltongue, in ways that have nothing to do with moral arguments (for instance Hufflepuff starts insisting he resort to cannibalism).
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