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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 was insane, the devil incarnate, as bad as it got.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

“He incarnates this figure of authority,” Gilles Holder, a Mali expert at the CNRS, told the New York Times.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

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

He incarnates a void and makes it impossible to look away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018

The strongest idea incarnates itself in majorities and nations, in the healthiest and strongest.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

"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

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

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

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

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

In such a test the Christian myth, for example, would be valued for its power of incarnating human desire.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann