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embodiment

[em-bod-ee-muhnt] / ɛmˈbɒd i mənt /


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The findings build on Levy’s stereotype embodiment theory.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

Tasha Graham, dressed head to toe in Knicks clothing, is the embodiment of New York's passion for its basketball team battling to win the NBA Finals and end a five-decade drought.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

It’s not merely trendy psychologizing to salute the qualities of a sturdy tree: a humbling reminder of time’s immensity, but also a living embodiment of shelter, change and growth.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Macron, who attended the country’s top schools, “has become the embodiment of everything populists hate,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Are the women in Vermeer’s light-filled interiors cryptic embodiments of Collegiant doctrine or secularized Jesuit motifs?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."

From BBC Mar. 10, 2026

There was a sense that it was kind of like no parents, no rules, and the companies were not structured like banks and law firms and these other embodiments of traditional corporate authority.

From Slate Jul. 30, 2023

You’ve seen them compete, these living breathing embodiments of strength and skill and athleticism.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2022

That side comprises the worship of natural objects, and especially of animals, birds, and fish, regarded as embodiments of spirits, whether gods or ghosts.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir




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