embodied

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"With his rigour, his courage and his idealism, he embodied a lofty idea of the Republic," said President Emmanuel Macron.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

“Libertarians talk a lot about freedom and responsibility. Brian embodied both,” Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward said in his obituary.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Murphy said that was “both a technical, procedural failure itself and a strong indication of something more fundamentally problematic: an abandonment of the technical knowledge and expertise embodied by that committee.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Wills, who is himself a Catholic, called the separation of church and state embodied in the First Amendment’s Establishment clause “a stunning innovation,” the one unique, genius thing about our nation’s founding document.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The yards embodied everything Anna had heard about Chicago and its irresistible, even savage drive toward wealth and power.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson