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embodiments

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plural of embodiment

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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 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 Unlike vision and language, robotics lacks large, diverse datasets that span tasks, environments, and embodiments, thus limiting both scalability and generalization. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 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 Here are real-life embodiments of our GOAT doing all three on the field. — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 10 Nov. 2025

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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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The trove of women’s bloomers, drawers, knickers, brassieres, corsets, and girdles is just a small part of the school’s historic clothing collection, with images shared by the University of Wyoming Libraries via JSTOR.

— April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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