epitome
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Today, it’s been adopted as a quasi-anthem for the U.S. and the epitome of American progressivism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Surely the currency on which our economy runs is the epitome of a public good?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Candid and unsparing with its author’s often acerbic views, “Miles” is a revelatory look at the man whose blazing ambition created the epitome of cool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Davidson also revealed that the home is the epitome of privacy, as it is an acre from the road.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Our lack of brothers and sisters makes it easier to imagine that we are the epitome of creation, and that a chasm separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
Though generally considered epitomes of wisdom, they should, almost all of them, be received with a qualification.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various
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