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[em-bod-ee] / ɛmˈbɒd i /




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"It's almost like he is trying to reach for this glorified manhood that he cannot embody anymore," said Sabrina Karim, a political science professor at Cornell University.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

His failures were many and spectacular, but in 1940, as Britain fought alone against Hitler’s Germany, he drew on a lifetime’s writing about greatness to embody it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

There are plenty of good reasons for firms to adopt a cute character to embody their brand.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The result is a people, black people, who embody all physical varieties and whose life stories mirror this physical range.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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