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embodiment

[em-bod-ee-muhnt] / ɛmˈbɒd i mənt /


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WASHINGTON—President Trump’s half-built White House ballroom is a 90,000-square-foot embodiment of a recurring legal conundrum: What happens when a boundary-pushing president moves faster than courts can keep up?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

I was imagining what it would be like to be her, so perfectly balanced en pointe, the embodiment of feminine beauty and grace.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Comic Con, on the other hand, was the embodiment of the Kentucky motto.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

His passing skills are also somewhat underrated because he is the embodiment of a dribble-first winger.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

“You are the embodiment of selfishness,” she said.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Like Homer’s, Mr. Armitage’s gods are not distant abstractions but present projections of human failings, embodiments of forces we struggle to name even after 40 centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

"They're kind of 3D embodiments of the drawings, but they're produced independently."

From BBC Sep. 26, 2025

“Watching the movie, I saw embodiments of things I had gone through,” he says.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2025

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

Before passing on to consider particular examples of satyr or bull-form fiends, a few words may be said as to another form which, though allied to the dragon-shape embodiments, has the personal character.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge




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