Thesaurus results for EMBODIMENTS

embodiments

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a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) Mother Theresa was often regarded as the embodiment of selfless devotion to others

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Recent Examples of embodiments This reflects the growing trend of AI labs investing in robotics and other hardware to give AI systems physical embodiments and may offer hints at Anthropic’s future partnerships in that field. — Hayden Field, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026 Yuan recently set out to tackle this problem by aggregating more than 3,000 hours of tactile robotic data from publicly available datasets, covering 21 sensor types and a variety of robot embodiments. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026 This approach reflects a broader direction in robotics research, where foundation models are increasingly being developed to share knowledge across different robot embodiments rather than learning isolated policies for every machine. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026 Too often, stereotypes about Africa lead us to treat players like Mane as outliers rather than as embodiments of the continent’s spirit. — Jeremy Ebobisse, Time, 26 June 2026 The largest open effort to pool this kind of data, Open X-Embodiment, includes more than a million real robot trajectories across 22 robot embodiments and 527 skills. — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 The company has focused in part on making photorealistic embodiments of virtual AI characters, four people said. — ArsTechnica, 13 Apr. 2026 Jews are not attacked as individuals but as embodiments of something the crowd has decided must be condemned. — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026 Impacciatore, squeezed into a skin-tight Power Rangers suit, performed an entire clowning routine where she’s accosted by abstract embodiments of various winter sports throughout history. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026

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Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of manifestations

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Most of these programs did not have physical forms in their original MCU incarnations, but appear in human form within the world inside Vision’s mind.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
One of the true survivors The 71-year-old Zeiler is one of the true survivors of the various incarnations of Warner Bros over the past 14 years.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

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His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Two more search warrants were carried out for the TikTok account, and during an interview, deputies said the teen confessed to taking photos of a younger child and using AI to alter the images to make the child appear nude.

— Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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