avatars

noun

plural of avatar
as in manifestations
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) our genial hosts, avatars of Southern hospitality

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Recent Examples of avatars Welcome to the Jungle centered on a group of teenage friends who end up trapped inside a video game as a series of adult avatars. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026 Besides Vision, this is the first time that the franchise has bestowed human avatars on the rest of the Stark Industries bots. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026 So far, users have generated 700 million outfits and 20 million avatars. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026 To test for authenticity, GLG is doing additional screening and ID verification — increasingly on camera with questions designed to trip up AI avatars. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Since his host has a strict rule about using human avatars in this environment, the bad guy now presents as the gentleman from The Blacklist rocking a wizard’s beard. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026 In the run-up to this year’s campaign, the AI in Elections Observatory recorded 29 cases of AI avatars like Dona Maria, though no other synthfakes obtained her level of notoriety. — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026 Like Muse, Dots have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names. — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026 Meta, which formerly was known as Facebook, has pushed this idea of the metaverse — digital spaces where people will work, socialize and play through virtual avatars. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avatars
  1. manifestations
  2. images
  3. icons
  4. incarnations
Noun
  • All over the French capital, shop owners and restaurateurs have boarded up their windows against les manifestations—protests over a lack of education funding which have frequently devolved into rioting.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • 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
Definition of manifestations
Noun
  • Mobile service vehicles for the Miami-Dade Tax Collector’s Office feature jumbo images of Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, a Republican who was also elected in 2024.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • But as far as photographing on the street, [those images] are marked by a certain distance from people or solitary figures in a vast landscape, that sort of thing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • Alexi’s interrogator just happens to be one of his former students, Vladimir (Franco), who initially seems to enjoy talking about Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and other icons of Russian literature with his former mentor.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Call it a reverse Pepé Le Pew, flattening Anglo-American icons to give some space not only to de Gaulle but to his internal antagonists and allies and to the French people themselves.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of icons
Noun
  • The Furby, a robotic plush toy that has undergone many incarnations since its invention interacts with its owners and even farts.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2026
  • The trick to enjoying the latest incarnations of great British TV detectives?
    — Bobby Ghosh, Air Mail, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of incarnations

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“Avatars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avatars. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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