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incarnate

[in-kahr-nit, -neyt, in-kahr-neyt] / ɪnˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt, ɪnˈkɑr neɪt /


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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

He’s forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

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

Remarkably, she doesn’t just resurrect Fred Rogers as a character; she incarnates his spirit — playfully, humorously, philosophically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

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 saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

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

The A.L.N. chief, later Algeria’s most important post-independence leader, Houari Boumediène, incarnated strains in the Algerian revolution — dominating strains — that will be familiar to Taliban watchers: religion and nationalism.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2021

He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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

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

Pope Francis is really incarnating for us the meaning of the Gospel.

From Time ● Jun. 10, 2015

His world was the world of ideas, taking visible form, incarnating themselves in man.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds




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