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embodiment

[em-bod-ee-muhnt] / ɛmˈbɒd i mənt /


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“Latinos and Hispanics in South Texas are the embodiment of the American dream.”

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Whenever Park talks about clients who have gone through the program and fallen in love with comedy, his face can only be described as being the embodiment of “Yay!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

And that makes Mayfield an embodiment of an uncomfortable decision teams around the league face about what to do with quarterbacks who are a cut below the game’s elite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Comic Con, on the other hand, was the embodiment of the Kentucky motto.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

That day, I felt myself to be the embodiment of African nationalism, the inheritor of Africa’s difficult but noble past and her uncertain future.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Are the women in Vermeer’s light-filled interiors cryptic embodiments of Collegiant doctrine or secularized Jesuit motifs?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

“Watching the movie, I saw embodiments of things I had gone through,” he says.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2025

There was a sense that it was kind of like no parents, no rules, and the companies were not structured like banks and law firms and these other embodiments of traditional corporate authority.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2023

Do not take it amiss; your motto is, Without hatred, no love,—and I did feel so moved when I thought of Gluck, and his grand embodiments.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy


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