incarnation
Example Sentences
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Portraits come in many incarnations—the rigorous realism of Holbein, the rococo elegance of Gainsborough, the harsh frankness of Lucian Freud, to name just a few.
He had an earlier television incarnation as Bill Brand in the 1970s ITV series of the same name about a fictional firebrand Labour MP.
From BBC
Even the "American dream" meant something different in its earliest incarnation.
From Salon
Dante and his friend Jon Davison would screen it for college audiences; in the project’s earliest incarnation, they would simply cue up film snippets that they had collected, periodically changing projectors for variety’s sake.
From New York Times
To untangle the destructive conflation of church and state, evangelicals — the most partisan religious incarnation of White conservatives — must rethink their approach and their objectives.
From Washington Post
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