as in incarnation
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
a portrait of a mother and child that is regarded as the very manifestation of maternal love
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Recent Examples of manifestation
People say the child looks just like her mom, but that only strengthens the hyper-subjective impression that Linda’s daughter isn’t a person in her own right so much as a human manifestation of her own anxiety.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
The vulnerabilities, affecting the CPUs in later generations of Apple A- and M-series chip sets, open them to side channel attacks, a class of exploit that infers secrets by measuring manifestations such as timing, sound, and power consumption.
—Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
Based on the Max Porter novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, the film gives grief a physical manifestation, a sinister presence that unmoors Cumberbatch’s character from reality.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Get creative with manifestation when the sun coordinates with Neptune.
—USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
The vulnerabilities, affecting the CPUs in later generations of Apple A- and M-series chip sets, open them to side channel attacks, a class of exploit that infers secrets by measuring manifestations such as timing, sound, and power consumption.
—Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
Based on the Max Porter novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, the film gives grief a physical manifestation, a sinister presence that unmoors Cumberbatch’s character from reality.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Get creative with manifestation when the sun coordinates with Neptune.
—USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manifestation
Noun
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Is there a more modern incarnation of Tantalus and his brethren?—
Daniel Seifert,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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What was modern about it is that people got seduced by a man that was an incarnation of a man very different from what they were used to seeing in society.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Feb. 2025
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While cameras didn't show the star too much during the game, another image of her during the second quarter summed up how Chiefs fans were feeling.—
Megan McCluskey,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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Beyond the popular image of federal bureaucrats in Washington are millions of workers across the country who work at veterans hospitals, labs, post offices and military bases.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA TODAY,
10 Feb. 2025
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Trump has long had a contentious relationship with the institution, considered one of the nation’s most prestigious avatars of culture.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Having different martial arts fighters and techniques to utilize helped deepen the cultural ties to each avatar’s personality beyond mere caricature, and has helped Tekken stand apart — both in terms of the faces seen on screen and the players at the helm.—
Veerender Jubbal,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2025
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Some insiders speculate that A-list actors, musicians and sports icons who have not publicly announced their plans might still show up.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Messi signed with Inter Miami a few months later, and Ruiz went from being just another Honduran youth prospect to teammate of the Argentine icon.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Directed by Gabriel Moses, the short film explores the essence of human connection through the rich and vibrant lens of West African culture.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
18 Feb. 2025
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President Trump has publicly said any peace rested on Ukraine ending its NATO ambitions and relinquishing territory seized by Moscow — in essence ceding to two key Russian demands.—
Charles Maynes,
NPR,
18 Feb. 2025
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Scott Rosenberg Jan 23, 2025 The AI personification trap The chatbot that's giving you information and ideas today is not your friend or neighbor — and the AI agent that might perform tasks for you tomorrow is not your coworker.—
Eleanor Hawkins,
Axios,
23 Jan. 2025
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Uncle Sam is the national personification of the U.S. and is often depicted as a tall, elderly man with white hair, a goatee, and dressed in red, white, and blue.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2025
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In the past, the agency has also kept open PubMed, which holds biomedical research abstracts needed for health care, and the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, where reporting of clinical studies is a legal requirement.—
ByDavid Malakoff,
science.org,
19 Dec. 2024
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The unwelcome advances all targeted one of the journals Barreto Segundo managed, The Journal of Physiotherapy Research, soon after it was indexed in Scopus, a database of abstracts and citations owned by the publisher Elsevier.—
Guillaume Cabanac,
The Conversation,
29 Jan. 2025
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One of the planes, a Learjet, is registered to Chromed in Hollywood, Inc. based in Franklin, Tenn., which is owned by Neil, according to incorporation papers from the Wyoming Secretary of State.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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Mosaics were a flourishing art form in the Roman Empire, where artisans pioneered the incorporation of tesserae (cubes of stone, ceramic and glass).—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Jan. 2025
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