embodiment
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“Latinos and Hispanics in South Texas are the embodiment of the American dream.”
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Rather, she’s the film’s embodiment of a lawful good, pre-programmed to fulfill her mission linearly without getting lost in the big, open world.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
After a Mississippi judge granted Chambliss an injunction in February, he will now return for his sixth collegiate season as the highest-profile embodiment of the topsy-turvy world of college football in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The taco stand where Lopez and Diaz worked together was in some ways the embodiment of the American dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
She was being sent away because she was the walking, breathing embodiment of their shame.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
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
You’ve seen them compete, these living breathing embodiments of strength and skill and athleticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Parmeno and Phaedria are natural embodiments of the confidential slave and the weak lover.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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