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The embodiment of something gives concrete form to an abstract idea. A flag is the embodiment of a country. When you talk about embodiment, you're talking about giving a form to ideas that are usually not physical: like love, hate, fear, justice, etc. A gavel is the embodiment of justice; a wedding ring can be the embodiment of love. The word body in embodiment is a clue to its meaning: this is a word for giving a body to things that usually don't have one.
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The findings build on Levy’s stereotype embodiment theory.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
Tasha Graham, dressed head to toe in Knicks clothing, is the embodiment of New York's passion for its basketball team battling to win the NBA Finals and end a five-decade drought.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Macron, who attended the country’s top schools, “has become the embodiment of everything populists hate,” said Olivier Costa, a research professor at the Paris-based Sciences Po university and France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
A man of good will wrestling with middle-aged angst, Artie is “in many ways, the embodiment of the American dream,” Strout tells us.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
In my own mind, Father was the embodiment of Uncles superior man.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Electric versions of the industry’s beefiest SUVs and pickups are stark embodiments of America’s EV reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Then, seconds after the Saturday night show ended, a video message from digital, super-powered embodiments of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers appeared on the screens inside the stadium to address the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
There was a sense that it was kind of like no parents, no rules, and the companies were not structured like banks and law firms and these other embodiments of traditional corporate authority.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2023
For many of them are the embodiments of ideas which the masons had perpetuated from a period centuries before his time, and which could in no other way have been handed down to us.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
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