epitome

For many, Aaron Copland’s ballets are the epitome of “American music.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

"He was the epitome of a successful man."

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

“The U.S. is the epitome of the trend, but it’s not unique to the U.S.,” said Thibault Camelli, a former French diplomat now at New York University and an authority on U.N. budgeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The foyer is the epitome of luxury thanks to its grand staircase and shimmering chandelier.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

If Washington was the epitome of the virtuous leader who subordinated personal interest to the public good, Burr was a kind of anti-Washington, who manipulated the public interest for his own inscrutable purposes.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

These are not the complex epitomes that show the extent of a wine’s potential.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2020

“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

Sometimes the very men who became epitomes of chivalric virtue turned away from its presumptions in disgust.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011

This man and his team were epitomes of the voiturier caste and their fixtures.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore