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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

He could have become a celebrity without breaking a sweat as the war hero, the jock, the husband, the cowboy, the American ideal made incarnate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 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

He was insane, the devil incarnate, as bad as it got.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

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

Golding, meanwhile, incarnates the screen charisma of a young Tyrone Power; he has only to flash his mega-watt smile to slip a scene into his immaculately tailored pocket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018

Mr. Spielberg incarnates this duality as perfectly as any man alive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018

One man was true to what is in you and me; he saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

“Robert Badinter never ceased to advocate the Enlightenment,” President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media, hailing him as a “figure of the century” who incarnated the “French spirit.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

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

When he entered a tournament, dressed in a khaki shirt and pants and dark tie and displaying that mustache, it was as if a doppelgänger of Der Fuehrer had been incarnated.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

That’s enough genius for any writer, but Williams goes further by offering actors the opportunity of incarnating his interior poetry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024

The dancers were incarnating the tormented souls of “Inferno,” the opening section of the full-length “Dante Project,” which is to have its premiere on Thursday.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

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

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

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

Thus, like Peter, we may become rocks, incarnating the Spirit of our Lord.

From Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships. by Reuel L. Howe


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