incarnate
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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
"This TV is the devil incarnate," she said in a loud voice.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
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
And what does Mbappé deliver, while blatherers scorn the new, plural Europe he incarnates, but renewed faith in the political power of beauty?
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2018
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
The “Elect Race” of Valentinus is the “Sonship” of Basilides that incarnates on earth for the abolition of Death.
From The Gnostic Crucifixion by G. R. S. Mead
"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
This change was made in the name of the one who incarnated the movement and its national revolution.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
Bernard Hill, a British actor who incarnated a humble style of masculine leadership in three hugely successful Hollywood movies, “Titanic” and two films in the “Lord of the Rings” franchise, died on Sunday.
From New York Times ● May 5, 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
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
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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
Which are different, but not dissimilar ways of incarnating a better, kinder world and more authentic relationships.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019
The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016
He’s in the business of forcing thought into action, incarnating desire in the form of objects and events.
From Time ● May 16, 2012
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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