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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

“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

The glamour of the town’s new honorary residents appears at stark odds with Mr. Richards’s neighborhood of Caia Park, a long deprived corner of Wrexham that came to epitomize the town’s decline.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

“We look forward to bringing the Image Awards back to Pasadena in front of a live audience and delivering unforgettable moments that epitomize the brilliance of the Black community.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 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

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

“Because the state is young and its cities and institutions are not bound by the weight of tradition,” he wrote in 2002, “like an unfinished canvas, Arizona still epitomizes the frontier.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

“To me, he kind of epitomizes a lot of the success that we’ve had looking back,” Friedman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

Nestled at the end of a cul-de-sac, this brand-new, modern home epitomizes luxury.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025

He epitomizes him with surprising fluency, until Jane, unable to stand more, interrupts.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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

Chinese immigrant Polly Bemis epitomized the pioneer-woman ideal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Robinson epitomized Sierra Canyon’s “refuse to lose” mindset.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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

He too epitomized Chief Luthuli’s precept: “Let your courage rise with danger.”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

Instead, one play into the second half showed they didn’t while also epitomizing all that went wrong on a day when the Seahawks ended up losing 37-3, tying the second-worst loss of the Carroll era.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 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

So ran Bainbridge's epitomizing of the proletary's case; and he knew that his opinion was shared with complete unanimity by all who had known Griswold in Printing House Square.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis