epitome
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Spanning 24,592 square feet, the home, which was built in 2012, is the epitome of elegance thanks to its manicured grounds.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Die Spitz’s set felt like the epitome of what Daisy Chain was all about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
She is the epitome of the way Christianity was able to grow in South America by adapting belief symbols already accepted by indigenous inhabitants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
He was the epitome of a perfect soldier.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
To present its hippest neighborhoods as epitomes of a cosmopolitanism that hasn’t turned its back on tradition.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2017
I think that is especially apropos for this epoch in our country and I hope everyone votes for whom they think epitomes that sentiment--regardless of political party of affiliation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
“Symphony in C” has long been one of the epitomes of high-orthodox ballet classicism.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2013
Sometimes the very men who became epitomes of chivalric virtue turned away from its presumptions in disgust.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
Even in the universities, as his pansophic scheme shows, he would have Plato and Aristotle taught chiefly by means of analyses and epitomes.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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