embodied
Americanadjective
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expressed, personified, or exemplified in concrete form.
The one-day intensive workshop is designed to shift peacemaking from words and theory to costly, embodied reality.
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having or provided with a body; incarnate or corporeal.
In most folklore, ghosts seem to be bound by many of the same physical laws that bind embodied beings.
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Environmental Science. relating to or being the energy involved or required in the production, maintenance, or use of a particular concrete object, and therefore thought of as part of the object.
You can increase the embodied efficiency of a new house by building it in an already dense neighborhood, taking advantage of existing infrastructure and shorter distances.
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(of writing) portraying the details of bodily experience as they are lived or relived by the writer so as to evoke them sympathetically in the reader.
Acting out your characters is something I recommend as part of the enlivening practice of embodied writing.
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At City, Ederson - a player who embodied Guardiola's tactics - was replaced by Gianluigi Donnarumma, who is a less capable passer.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Otherwise, this is another hunt-and-retrieve narrative for the bounty hunter voiced by Pedro Pascal, physically embodied in armor by Brendan Wayne and, in combat, by fight choreographer Lateef Crowder.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Washington once embodied the future of the U.S. economy, and it can again.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
To certain media executives, Kelly embodied a potential way forward: a right-leaning but nondogmatic worldview, plus a healthy hold on reality.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
I reread the magazine and was convinced that much of the expression embodied what the artists thought would appeal to others, what they thought would gain recruits.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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