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embody

Definition for embody

verb as in include, integrate

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Rambeau completely embodies the spirit of Captain Marvel with her commanding presence and that’s why Parris’ portrayal of her has so rapidly grabbed the attention of viewers week after week.

That’s also a very sexy trope that girls don’t necessarily get to embody.

From Vox

In the dark days of the Second World War, he fought for freedom, and in the face of the country’s deepest postwar crisis, he united us all, he cheered us all up, and he embodied the triumph of the human spirit.

Instead of worrying about her own pain or concerns, she explains that this connection to Jennifer and the chance to embody the action of giving helped her get out of her own head and into her heart.

From Time

Both species, he insists, are singularly embodied in Vladimir Putin.

From Time

Long before rehearsals began, Sharp started to embody Christopher.

When it came to casting Escobar, Di Stefano had to find a strong actor who could embody the brutality of the late kingpin.

It was oh-so subtle, but he began to embody his grandfather and his father.

We can never know the degree to which these women actively choose to embody this ideal, or how “real” it may or may not be.

Without the tension between good and evil—and without protagonists to embody that moral polarity—a lesser show would go slack.

How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!

They embody in themselves the uppermost thought of the era that was dawning when they were written.

The "principles of 1907" embody the doctrine of a mutual obligation between the individual and the community.

Stated, it reads: All persons who embody noble thoughts in verse form are poets.

That widespread enchantment seemed to concentre and embody itself mysteriously in her; she became its living manifestation.

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On this page you'll find 134 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to embody, such as: demonstrate, epitomize, exemplify, exhibit, express, and illustrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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