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
He’s forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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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
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
If a stentorian voice once prevailed on public radio, the model of the host that Glass incarnates, and that Brian Reed embodies on “S-Town”—a sensitive, hesitating, transparently liberal male—has become equally ubiquitous today.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Golding, meanwhile, incarnates the screen charisma of a young Tyrone Power; he has only to flash his mega-watt smile to slip a scene into his immaculately tailored pocket.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2018
You feel that out of this color and depth has emerged something that itself incarnates lure and mystery.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
"She truly incarnated the love and passion of Jesus for people here," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
Tabita Rezaire, for example, whose website describes her as “infinity incarnated into an agent of healing,” is showing a film installation exploring megalithic stone circles in Gambia and Senegal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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Lush but delicate, expensive but incarnating the abundance of nature, anatomically and scientifically intricate but making no special demands of the viewer, the orchid makes a free gift of its sheer, pleasurable beauty.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
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
So, also, each planet is a living, cosmic individual, intensely alive; living, moving, breathing, and bringing forth its offspring of like substance, matter, in obedience to the potential demand of incarnating spirit.
From The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 by Thomas H. Burgoyne
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