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Recent Examples of avatar Louise's accidental use of the meme as her professional avatar struck a chord online. Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 Others may not like their AI avatar videos but consider the financial reward high enough to make up for the sting. ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025 Most of the episodes are centered around Rumi, a not-so-subtle avatar for Ramy Youssef, who in 2001 was also a young Muslim boy living in New Jersey with his Egyptian parents. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2025 These avatars, built from machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and deep neural networks, are trained on human speech patterns and thought processes. Raghu Para, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for avatar
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Noun
  • The musician’s spotting was part side quest, part manifestation.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2025
  • Fortunately, the man did not develop this even more serious manifestation of the disease.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • To backtrack: Sepideh Farsi was compelled by the images coming out of Gaza to travel there.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
  • Escape to paradise without leaving your home with Southern photographer Kristen M. Brown’s new coffee table book Slice of Pura Vida-dise, which features over 150 images of beaches, sunsets, and surf culture, and feels like an instant vacation.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • From Leatherface to Jason Voorhees to Freddy Krueger, countless horror icons have taken up Halloween residence in the Universal theme parks — but for the first time in the U.S., Universal Studios is bringing new genres to life: science fiction and fantasy.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 15 May 2025
  • Hundreds of fans had gathered outside the Miami team hotel behind police barricades on Monday night, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Argentine icon.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Throughout season 1 the Doctor met numerous incarnations of the same woman, all played by Susan Twist.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 May 2025
  • The relationship between corruption and the modern incarnation of right-wing populism is twofold, in that populists often run against corruption and then behave corruptly.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 May 2025

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“Avatar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avatar. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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