epitomize
verb (used with object)
to contain or represent in small compass; serve as a typical example of; typify.
have epitomized
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present perfectof epitomize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The first wound up cleared by Jawad El Yamiq and briefly looked as though it might end up an own goal, which would have epitomized fate’s capacity for cruelty.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022
In Gorey’s mind, his mother seems to have epitomized America’s mid-century attack of fake goodness.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018
The struggles of Jets center Spencer Long have epitomized the New York’s problems on offense.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2018
Chumstick’s remedies for its landscape afflictions have epitomized the types of treatments being adopted in fire-prone neighborhoods and towns throughout the country.
From Scientific American ● May 28, 2015
On the first day of his stay at Råbäck Mr Wraxall found the church door open, and made these notes of the interior which I have epitomized.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
