incarnate
adjective
embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form.
incarnates
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present tense formof incarnate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Santos incarnates its venal and ridiculous side, the part rooted in reality TV and get-rich-quick schemes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023
“He incarnates this figure of authority,” Gilles Holder, a Mali expert at the CNRS, told the New York Times.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022
The short piece, developed for this program, comes from a section of her solo work, “Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus,” in which Doherty, an Irish choreographer, incarnates shifting ideas of masculinity.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
As religious freedom is the Wahn of the Reformation drama, so it is in political freedom that the Eternal Illusion now incarnates itself.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
