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incarnate

[in-kahr-nit, -nayt, in-kahr-nayt] / ɪnˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt, ɪnˈkɑr neɪt /


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Here, in effect, stood American corporations incarnate: massive, spectacular, inventive, prosperous, self-confident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

The former cop and Secret Service agent spent nearly a decade losing three congressional races in two different states before settling into a groove as steroids incarnate with a microphone.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025

Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “Mr. Weiss was here incarnate, but not particularly in spirit.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Afterwards Kolisi, the Springboks' skipper and spirit incarnate, spoke about distinctive mood music that accompanies his team's matches.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he’d just heard heresy incarnate.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“He incarnates this figure of authority,” Gilles Holder, a Mali expert at the CNRS, told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

Remarkably, she doesn’t just resurrect Fred Rogers as a character; she incarnates his spirit — playfully, humorously, philosophically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

If a stentorian voice once prevailed on public radio, the model of the host that Glass incarnates, and that Brian Reed embodies on “S-Town”—a sensitive, hesitating, transparently liberal male—has become equally ubiquitous today.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018

Yes! anything she has worn or touched; for, as a modern writer has said: Everything a woman wears or touches immediately incarnates something of herself.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Erivo, a musical theater divinity, incarnated Elphaba from the inside out while delivering the power ballads with as much feeling as vocal majesty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

This change was made in the name of the one who incarnated the movement and its national revolution.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

Many people dislike her decisions, but there has been little organized protest—no one I spoke to could name a politician who incarnated the opposition.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

There is the story of Vishnu incarnated as Vamana the dwarf.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Aretha became a revolution by incarnating powerful ideas and desires that were sloshing around seeking a vessel strong enough to contain them.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018

Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos take turns incarnating the brash, bumptious Mailer, whose offensive remarks rile the panelists and audience member to the point of near riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017

The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

Pope Francis is really incarnating for us the meaning of the Gospel.

From Time ● Jun. 10, 2015

A high soul, incarnating, must take many risks; and before it has found itself and tamed the new personality, may have sown griefs for itself to be reaped through many lives.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris




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