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incarnations

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plural of incarnation

as in manifestations

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) she is the very incarnation of grace and tactfulness

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Recent Examples of incarnations In previous incarnations, the project has included a luxury hotel, apartments and a Frank Gehry museum. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 Heisenberg and Schrödinger had come up with two radically different incarnations of one theory. — Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 Richard O’Brien, who created The Rocky Horror Show and played Riff Raff in its stage and screen incarnations, was not present for the moment Curry became Frank-N-Furter. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026 More importantly, the franchise has jumped around in time — not just with the occasional time-travel subplot, but with different incarnations of the characters across the timeline. — Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026 Television has its own example in Doctor Who, where generations of viewers have embraced different actors as the Doctor without abandoning earlier incarnations. — David Deal, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Put all that together and this city has good reason to embrace a festival that, after 20 incarnations in Sweet Home Chicago, deserves to be seen as part of our summer furniture. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026 Although established names like Nicolas Cage, Brendan Fraser, Josh Hartnett, and Jude Law had been linked with previous incarnations of Superman, Singer opted to cast an unknown, just as Donner had done with the peerless Reeve. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 28 June 2026 However, Clayton-Thomas continued working over the decades, both solo and as a member of later incarnations of the band. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 June 2026

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Many Hindus today identify as Shaivas, Vaishnavas, or Shaktas, sectarian groups that, respectively, worship Shiva, Vishnu, or Shakti as supreme, with all other deities considered as manifestations or subordinates.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Pursued by monstrous entities and confronted by manifestations of human suffering, Dante and Virgil will eventually come face to face with the Devil himself.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

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Unlike conventional stereo systems, which mainly calculate horizontal differences between images from parallel cameras, CBS accounts for both horizontal and vertical disparities created when cameras converge on a target.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Many accounts posting these images are verified on X and appear to be anonymous.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026

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