incarnate
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Here, in effect, stood American corporations incarnate: massive, spectacular, inventive, prosperous, self-confident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
And somehow even this was part of the search—the physical beauty of the black body was all our beauty, historical and cultural, incarnate.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
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
He incarnates a void and makes it impossible to look away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
Mr. Spielberg incarnates this duality as perfectly as any man alive.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2018
As religious freedom is the Wahn of the Reformation drama, so it is in political freedom that the Eternal Illusion now incarnates itself.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Erivo, a musical theater divinity, incarnated Elphaba from the inside out while delivering the power ballads with as much feeling as vocal majesty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
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
There is the story of Vishnu incarnated as Vamana the dwarf.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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That’s enough genius for any writer, but Williams goes further by offering actors the opportunity of incarnating his interior poetry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
The dancers were incarnating the tormented souls of “Inferno,” the opening section of the full-length “Dante Project,” which is to have its premiere on Thursday.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Which are different, but not dissimilar ways of incarnating a better, kinder world and more authentic relationships.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2019
The first softens as it goes, incarnating Jesus’ earthly despair:
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016
God has meant each of us for something; incarnating in us one of his own great thoughts, and equipping us with all material that is necessary for its realization.
From John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
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