embody
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Few nations embody that evolution more than Morocco.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
"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
“But we have a body, and I like to very much embody my own storytelling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
He lived long enough to embody qualities before being undone by them.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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“This extraordinary residence represents the culmination of that passion: a Napa-inspired estate that embodies everything she loved most about residential design,” the listing goes on.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Deeply influenced by his Cuban grandfather, Rubio says he embodies the American dream.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
DFB president Bernd Neuendorf said Klopp "embodies passion, credibility, and the ability to inspire people".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
In a nicely balanced performance, Alejandra Villanueva’s Mistress Quickly, the play’s go-between and overseer of mischief, embodies the free and easy spirit of Simon’s production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
True concluded triumphantly, “God or man, he embodies all the radiant energy of the adolescence of western art.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Finally, we offer this series as a provocation: So many of you have spent the past year attending No Kings protests, at which you embodied, physically, what it means to reject monarchical power.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
The live-wire wit and idiosyncratic verve that she embodied in “Reds” and “Something’s Gotta Give” are very much on display here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
What Mr. Salonen and company promised and, in fact, delivered was a roster of works that embodied a certain Ojai ideal—modern music that is aesthetically rigorous and largely Eurocentric, formal and, at least overtly, apolitical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
"He embodied everything we like to see in a manager, humility, professionalism and a deep care for his players and staff," added Bevan.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
Hub Heap, who came out here in 1939 and later started a successful oil field supply company, remembered well the single event that embodied his early days in Odessa.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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"Off the field, he carried himself with humility and integrity, embodying the very best values of our game."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“This union of artistry and vision transformed the property into a singular masterpiece, embodying the glamour and creative force of Hollywood’s Golden Age,” the description goes on.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
Webb did so by embodying professional excellence, constructing his cases with analytical rigor, painstaking research, and courage.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
The hive mind is one of genre fiction’s most reliably unsettling tropes, embodying our native fear of being overwhelmed by a force organized around a singular purpose.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
Curiously, though, environmentalists also describe Native American history as embodying precisely the opposite lesson: how to live in a spiritual balance with Nature.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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