embodies
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To the book’s heartsick narrator, Louise Brown, the man who embodies those old-fashioned virtues is Claude Collier, the 27-year-old layabout scion of an aristocratic New Orleans clan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Soo’s Bonnie sweetly embodies the excesses of a kind of progressive piety.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
"She reflects the reality of millions of people living in the Balkans. She embodies a Balkan identity more than a Romani one," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
As the United States Supreme Court explained in 1942, the Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel implicitly embodies a “correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help.”
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
A mammoth corporation like this—it embodies too much experience.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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