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embodiment

[em-bod-ee-muhnt] / ɛmˈbɒd i mənt /


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As much as anything, Ditka was the physical embodiment of a brutal sport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Latinos and Hispanics in South Texas are the embodiment of the American dream.”

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Rather, she’s the film’s embodiment of a lawful good, pre-programmed to fulfill her mission linearly without getting lost in the big, open world.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Whenever Park talks about clients who have gone through the program and fallen in love with comedy, his face can only be described as being the embodiment of “Yay!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Earnestly and expertly, he cast himself not as an outsider but rather as a literal embodiment of the American story.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He and Erkılıç have achieved international acclaim for their team’s decades of foundational experimentation collaborating with dataset intelligences at the AI frontier, as well as for architecturally-scaled, narratively engaged visual embodiments of abstract technological constructs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

They are of the same era—fanciful and fantastical embodiments of the enterprise, leisure and sense of possibility America was placing on offer, despite the decade of Depression and war’s looming storm clouds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 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

In the warmth of their recoil from the evils of monopolism, men ran into extreme and distorted embodiments of the opposite principle, and they ran contrary ways.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae


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