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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Embodied AI will bolster trends that are already in place—the demand for AI chips, data connectivity, increasing power production, and the U.S. manufacturing renaissance, among them.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
Now a professor in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, she’s helping to open the school’s Center for Embodied Equity and Neurodiversity in August.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024
“By the end of 2024, humanoid robots with Embodied AI will be able to perform useful tasks at scale. They will be proven as useful in manufacturing, warehousing, store operations/restocking and hospital/healthcare operations,” Gurley predicts.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2024
Los fabricantes de Moxie, que pertenecen a una empresa emergente llamada Embodied, califican este artefacto como “el primer amigo robot de IA del mundo”.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023
Embodied the result of his Canadian experiences in a volume of travels, which, especially his extraordinary story of the Rivi�re Longue, has been the subject of much controversy.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
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