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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Construction is responsible for 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to New York City’s climate website, while the embodied carbon from just cement manufacturing is responsible for about 8%.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
To certain media executives, Kelly embodied a potential way forward: a right-leaning but nondogmatic worldview, plus a healthy hold on reality.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
What would feel embodied and connected to the scale of intimacy between a photographer and a subject?
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
He has also embodied everything that has been so effective about Arteta's team this season.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
And still more: that this new German religion was embodied and made incarnate in the person of its leader.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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