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.
verb
Other Word Forms
- well-embodied adjective
Etymology
Origin of embodied
Example Sentences
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The top researcher’s actual title is global embodied AI strategist, but regardless, the role is a first for the bank as it dives deeper into the boom in private markets.
He embodied "the things the fashion world has lost: it's all business now", she said.
From Barron's
During the campaign, Wine embodied the energy and impatience of Uganda's youth, while Museveni cast himself as the seasoned patriarch, the guarantor of stability.
From BBC
One possible factor is the tone set by social media and the emotive doom-scrolling and rage magnets embodied in their algorithms.
From BBC
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, who no longer covers Tesla stock for the brokerage, focusing on AI and robotics, recently wrote about the “embodied AI ecosystem,” based on his acronym DREAMS.
From Barron's
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