reinstantiation

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And to this we have to add the further irony that in war propaganda Orwell was able to bury for the time being his fear that a postcolonial India, when it was achieved, might simply be a reinstantiation of the paranoid nationalism which had brought the world to war in the ﬁ rst place.

In the Picture: Orwell, India and the BBC 2004
And it follows that instead of taking pot luck on the destination, we should learn about the network protocols the Routers use, figure out some kind of transferable currency we can use to pay for our reinstantiation with at the other end, and also how to make some kind of map so we know where we're going.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004
Susan, re-instantiation (actually the term is used without the hyphen) is a database term, when an exact copy of database is made to exist on another disk, it is reinstantiation.

Stand Firm 2009
You've outlasted that crude emotional conditioning you used on yourself after the divorce, and as for _her, _ she's a good reinstantiation of -- "

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004