Example Sentences

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The marmalade-loving bear is portrayed by a puppet controlled by a two-person team: James Hameed, the remote puppeteer, who controls the expressions and delivers the voice, and Arti Shah, who embodies Paddington on stage.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026

For Kim Forrest of Bokeh Capital Partners, SpaceX embodies a "cool" factor thanks to Musk's marketing savvy.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

This team embodies everything New York loves: sacrifice, perseverance and heart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

It offers a consistent quantum picture of gravity in which spacetime embodies a balance between opposite directions of time — and where our universe may have had a history before the Big Bang.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

In environmental terms, Thoreau, who saw the landscape as imbued with an essential wildness that could be heedlessly destroyed, embodies physis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann