INSTRUMENTALITY Synonyms: 40 Similar Words

instrumentality

noun

ˌin(t)-strə-mən-ˈta-lə-tē

Definition of instrumentality

as in means

something used to achieve an end computer literacy is only an instrumentality for acquiring an education, and not an end in itself

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Recent Examples of instrumentality As an instrumentality charter, the Milwaukee Virtual School would be operated by MPS staff using district funds. — Cleo Krejci, jsonline.com, 27 Jan. 2025 Amtrak is also not considered a department, agency or instrumentality of the United States Government and its overseeing regulatory body, the OIG, remains open during shutdowns as well. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024 But the instrumentality of so many of his characters seems to have reached a nadir in The City and Its Uncertain Walls. — Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024 Moore said Tuesday, after the meeting, that the city controlling the budget would not be a legal conflict of interest, as the PAB is an instrumentality of Baltimore City. — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for instrumentality

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Noun

Because having a major LLM now adopt automatic watermarking of all its AI outputs has caused masses of people to rush to find a means to defeat the watermarking.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Defense attorney Steve Haney argued that there was no evidence Rinderknecht started the blaze, that the fire could have been started by a firework or other means and that the fire scene was not secured.

— Sierra van der Brug, Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of means

Noun

Zhang Heng’s seismoscope Chinese polymath Zhang Heng created his earthquake-detecting instrument in 132 CE.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
The sound stage felt bludgeoned into submission throughout, as the intense distortion of bass, percussion and guitars made the instrument separation within the mix almost inaudible.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of instrument

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Investigators looked over the woman’s vehicle and discovered a bullet hole through the passenger-side window and blood in the car.

— Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
Forterra has previously unveiled MESA, a logistics and casualty-evacuation vehicle based on the Polaris Ranger XD 1500.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026

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Stripe has spent two years assembling the machinery to bill software by consumption, and this deal moves it to where that consumption originates.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Still, when federal contractors began using heavy machinery in the national park to clear land earlier this month, tensions rose again and questions were renewed about their plans.

— Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of machinery

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But the agency’s independent vaccine advisers unanimously voted in June that the new vaccine’s benefits outweigh its risks.

— Elise Haulund, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Bill Flood, a spokesman for DEEP, said the agency decided to commission a new population survey to help inform its ongoing conservation efforts and its work to mitigate conflicts between people and bears.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of agency

Noun

Creating new therapies for cardiovascular disease The heart is not the only organ with its own neural network.

— Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
The first expansion wave is dominated by immune cells, but also includes select cells in the lungs, kidneys, and other organs whose properties have changed as a result of stress or inflammation.

— Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026

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