Thesaurus results for EMBODIMENTS

embodiments

noun

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 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

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Mike Flanagan’s story loosely co-opts the villain origin tale behind many of those incarnations — actor with an ax to grind gains shapeshifting abilities — but otherwise starts more or less from scratch.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
In Israel’s first decades, most Palestinian votes went to the Jewish-Arab Communist Party, in its various incarnations, or to Arab lists – parties affiliated with the ruling Labor movement and acting on its behalf.

— Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

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