epitome
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The schnitzel sandwich at Miznon, a fast-casual chainlet with locations on four continents, is arguably the epitome of Israeli cuisine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Michu was the epitome of an on-screen cult hero, going from relative unknown to bagging 190 points, his price rising by £2m throughout the year.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“It’s the epitome of iron sharpens iron,” Adams said when asked about McDuffie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Ali-Reza had been a complete jerk to me—the epitome of a Soulless Minion of Orthodoxy—but I still felt bad for him.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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These are not the complex epitomes that show the extent of a wine’s potential.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2020
To present its hippest neighborhoods as epitomes of a cosmopolitanism that hasn’t turned its back on tradition.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2017
“Symphony in C” has long been one of the epitomes of high-orthodox ballet classicism.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2013
I read Paradise Lost, or Richard III, it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2013
He and the other humanists merely desired to substitute Aristotle himself in the original for the Latin translation from the Arabic, necessarily misleading, and the Greek and Latin classics for barbarous epitomes.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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