Thesaurus results for EMBODIMENTS

embodiments

noun

plural of embodiment

as in manifestations

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 The same model checkpoint was also used on other robot platforms, including Franka Duo, highlighting its ability to work across different robotic embodiments. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 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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In Salento, each town nestled into a shallow valley or slim rise has its own dialectal name for the almond in its varied manifestations—as tree, as fruit, as orchard.

— Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
The persistence of these misconceptions matters because clinicians and the public alike may expect Ebola to look dramatic from the outset, when in reality its early manifestations often resemble many other common infectious diseases.

— Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 26 June 2026

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In all the time since, the water flowed through that line under the many incarnations of the Sunset Strip, feeding smaller pipes that quenched a growing metropolis that expanded from about 500,000 people to 4 million.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
Fans of the graphic novel series may notice the storyline is not exactly what’s in the 2015 novella — a choice that made sense for their screen incarnations, says Oseman.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026

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The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
The images her sister captured after the strike show the trajectory of the projectile, which ripped through floor after floor, and left a gaping hole covered in a thick layer of white dust.

— Ava Bambuck, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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