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The two entrepreneurs came to epitomize a certain swagger of the first hype cycle roughly a decade ago when Silicon Valley was betting it could replace a world of human-driven cars with robots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

Both are trailblazing politicians, mixed-raced children with unusual names, whose biographies epitomize the nation’s changing face.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

“Water projects came to epitomize the pork barrel; they were the oil can that lubricated the nation’s legislative machinery.”

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

In browsing print shops and bookstores, I found and bought illustrated books by designers whose styles epitomize art nouveau, Art Deco, and the arts and crafts aesthetic.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

The time-tested strategy of using those who epitomize moral virtue as symbols in racial justice campaigns is far more difficult to employ in efforts to reform the criminal justice system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Since its excellence needs no explaining, here are a few others that are as worthy of our appreciation, including a heartwarming duet that epitomizes Parton’s universal appeal.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Emmy-nominated for reality competition series and reality host, “Top Chef: Carolinas” epitomizes Kish’s swift remaking of the role in her own image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The fund, founded in 1929, epitomizes Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle’s values —own a balanced mix of stocks and bonds, and keep your costs down.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

For me, his dilemma epitomizes both the potential and pitfalls of investing in private assets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

The first law of good manners, which epitomizes all the rest is, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

From Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young

That heritage gave both him and the backcountry settlers he epitomized their combative sense of equality and dignity—rooted in the history of British impositions on their ancestral lands in Ulster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

On what many onlookers credited with being the loudest night of the season, a kindergartner perhaps epitomized what many of this city’s oldest and most die-hard fans are finally feeling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

Chinese immigrant Polly Bemis epitomized the pioneer-woman ideal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Some longevity influencers attract rubbernecking for their quixotic quests to live forever, epitomized by venture capitalist Bryan Johnson’s vampiric infusions of his teenage son’s blood plasma.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026

Altogether there were four brothers—he, Henry, Walter, and Garland—and they epitomized old-time cool: suave, handsome black men who worked hard, drank hard, dressed well, liked fine women and new money.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

Times restaurant critic Bill Addison as “deftly engineered chaos,” ultimately epitomizing the “L.A. dreamer, the go-getter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

A deal epitomizing the new era of resource nationalism was unveiled Wednesday when Glencore agreed to sell a stake in two African copper mines to a consortium backed by the U.S. government.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 4, 2026

If a ball doesn’t bounce off one Seahawk’s helmet on one play or a Brown’s hands on another, this team is 4-3 and epitomizing average.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

This idea — of Earth's lifeforms as epitomizing a collective, life-cultivating system — has a long history: the ancient Greeks called Earth "Gaia," the mother of all life.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

Having no illusions, and being a severely practical man, Vanderbilt well knew the pretensions of this trading class; with many a cynical remark, aptly epitomizing the point, he often made sport of their assumptions.

From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers