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manifestation

noun

ˌma-nə-fə-ˈstā-shən

Definition of manifestation

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 But the competition for the Golden Lion and the festival’s other awards is only the start of Venice’s wide-ranging embrace of the art of cinema in its many manifestations. — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 One of the standout prototypes this year was the BMW Alpina, a material manifestation of the marque’s discontent with the status quo. — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2026 By that logic, the authorial content of the work resides in the structure the artist has designed, not in any particular manifestation. — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Although there is no moral equivalence between the two, both are manifestations of the same problem. — Rina Amiri, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for manifestation

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Casting has not yet been announced for the Broadway incarnation.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Heisenberg and Schrödinger had come up with two radically different incarnations of one theory.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of incarnation

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David Nussbaum, founder of Proto Hologram in Los Angeles, is helping Sadhguru create a three-dimensional AI avatar that appears in a display box and can interact with devotees in several languages.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti (or Devi), and their various avatars and related forms became the central deities of Hindu devotion.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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Stock Chart IconStock chart icon Marvell Technology stock since the start of the year.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
During opening night of his 30-show run at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, Harry Styles took a moment to honor country icon Dolly Parton following her death on Tuesday.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026

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To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Ahead, scroll on to find five cozy colors that the nail pros say perfectly capture the essence of fall.

— Jennifer Hussein, InStyle, 28 Aug. 2026

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Instead, his deity might be better understood as a personification of the source of energeia—the furthest horizon of fulfilment towards which all potential forms in the universe strive.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Commander Chancellor Nahla Ake (Holly Hunter) returns to educate the next generation of cadets, with Caleb Mir (Sandro Rosta) becoming the personification of Ake’s attempt to fix a mistake from her past.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 25 July 2026

Definition of personification

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Whoever enters the highest bid gets the player, with ties usually decided either through a timing element (first highest bid wins) or the incorporation of a secondary waiver priority mechanism (team with the highest bid and highest priority wins).

— Sports Betting, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
The trailer also promises to touch on how then-contemporary thoughts of women as too innocent to murder helped Lizzie get acquitted, and teases the incorporation of other stories of female killers throughout history.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of incorporation

Noun

Regardless, there’s a clear symbolism to Clark empathizing and embracing a bloated externalization of his own inchoate fury until someone with an outside perspective disturbs his peace, and that fury breaks loose and devours him.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
The trade-off for that short-term satisfaction is the externalization of a thinking process that used to live inside a junior associate’s head.

— Jeff Raikes, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

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