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incarnations

noun

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 The surviving members of the Grateful Dead toured together in many incarnations over the years, but Dead and Company was the most popular one by a significant margin. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 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

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The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works.

— Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Each playing manifestations of those possibilities are Gabriel Basso, Aaron Pierre and Patrick Schwarzenegger.

— Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 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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