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Islamic fasting is oriented toward submission to divine will, while Christian penance is animated by gratitude for the incarnate God who suffered, died and rose again for the salvation of humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

The former cop and Secret Service agent spent nearly a decade losing three congressional races in two different states before settling into a groove as steroids incarnate with a microphone.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2025

Rep. Matt Gaetz said, “Mr. Weiss was here incarnate, but not particularly in spirit.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Afterwards Kolisi, the Springboks' skipper and spirit incarnate, spoke about distinctive mood music that accompanies his team's matches.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

Cudn Hope laughed, but Papa looked like he’d just heard heresy incarnate.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

Gawain, whom Patel inhabits even more assuredly than he did David Copperfield, himself incarnates that religio-cultural tension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

Bo Mason incarnates a mythical — or, more exactly, a myth-mongering — type of Westerner that Stegner often blamed for the region’s troubles.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2020

For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019

God incarnates himself as the son of Mary, and Jesus says, “I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness.”

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck

"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

This change was made in the name of the one who incarnated the movement and its national revolution.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

Many people dislike her decisions, but there has been little organized protest—no one I spoke to could name a politician who incarnated the opposition.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023

As an art form in which human beings are incarnated, drama is a natural conduit for metaphysics and ontology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023

When he entered a tournament, dressed in a khaki shirt and pants and dark tie and displaying that mustache, it was as if a doppelgänger of Der Fuehrer had been incarnated.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

And here is Brooks Atkinson on an ingénue named Carol Channing incarnating Miss Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” in 1949: “There has never been anything like this before in human society.”

From New York Times ● May 28, 2020

Aretha became a revolution by incarnating powerful ideas and desires that were sloshing around seeking a vessel strong enough to contain them.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2018

Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos take turns incarnating the brash, bumptious Mailer, whose offensive remarks rile the panelists and audience member to the point of near riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2017

The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

It is easy to understand how these two persons, incarnating the irreconcilable opposition of two epochs, two morales, two societies, of Roman militarism and of Oriental culture, could not live together.

From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero