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epitome

[ih-pit-uh-mee] / ɪˈpɪt ə mi /




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People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Michu was the epitome of an on-screen cult hero, going from relative unknown to bagging 190 points, his price rising by £2m throughout the year.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Die Spitz’s set felt like the epitome of what Daisy Chain was all about.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Former UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein described him as "the epitome of evil".

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Duer was the epitome of the enterprising speculator whom he trusted and who ultimately proved untrustworthy.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

These are not the complex epitomes that show the extent of a wine’s potential.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

To present its hippest neighborhoods as epitomes of a cosmopolitanism that hasn’t turned its back on tradition.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2017

“Symphony in C” has long been one of the epitomes of high-orthodox ballet classicism.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2013

Sometimes the very men who became epitomes of chivalric virtue turned away from its presumptions in disgust.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011

He and the other humanists merely desired to substitute Aristotle himself in the original for the Latin translation from the Arabic, necessarily misleading, and the Greek and Latin classics for barbarous epitomes.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson




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