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Here, in effect, stood American corporations incarnate: massive, spectacular, inventive, prosperous, self-confident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

He could have become a celebrity without breaking a sweat as the war hero, the jock, the husband, the cowboy, the American ideal made incarnate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

The former cop and Secret Service agent spent nearly a decade losing three congressional races in two different states before settling into a groove as steroids incarnate with a microphone.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025

Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “Mr. Weiss was here incarnate, but not particularly in spirit.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Like Giordano Bruno, he did not believe that Jesus Christ was God incarnate and he suffered the same fate as Bruno for his beliefs, but at different hands.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“He incarnates this figure of authority,” Gilles Holder, a Mali expert at the CNRS, told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

Gawain, whom Patel inhabits even more assuredly than he did David Copperfield, himself incarnates that religio-cultural tension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

And what does Mbappé deliver, while blatherers scorn the new, plural Europe he incarnates, but renewed faith in the political power of beauty?

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

Is there a single figure in the fresco representing the “Triumph of St. Thomas” which incarnates the idea it symbolises, which, without its labelling instrument, would convey any meaning whatever?

From The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works by Berenson, Bernard

Many people dislike her decisions, but there has been little organized protest—no one I spoke to could name a politician who incarnated the opposition.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

The Stoic god is a material entity who exists in nature and meticulously manages it, the material first cause of the universe, Aristotle’s unmoved mover incarnated as a material entity.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

The weird sisters, incarnated in the mesmerizing, smoky-voiced performance art of Kathryn Hunter, seem as much a fact of the natural world as the crows circling the gunmetal sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

Tabita Rezaire, for example, whose website describes her as “infinity incarnated into an agent of healing,” is showing a film installation exploring megalithic stone circles in Gambia and Senegal.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

There is the story of Vishnu incarnated as Vamana the dwarf.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

The dancers were incarnating the tormented souls of “Inferno,” the opening section of the full-length “Dante Project,” which is to have its premiere on Thursday.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

Which are different, but not dissimilar ways of incarnating a better, kinder world and more authentic relationships.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019

Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos take turns incarnating the brash, bumptious Mailer, whose offensive remarks rile the panelists and audience member to the point of near riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017

The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

In such a test the Christian myth, for example, would be valued for its power of incarnating human desire.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter