incarnations

plural of incarnation

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Recent Examples of incarnations 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 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 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 However, Clayton-Thomas continued working over the decades, both solo and as a member of later incarnations of the band. Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 June 2026 By now, there have been various incarnations of Mbappe at World Cups. Adam Crafton, New York Times, 16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incarnations
Noun
  • But the competition for the Golden Lion and the festival’s other awards is only the start of Venice’s wide-ranging embrace of the art of cinema in its many manifestations.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • If most people tend to think of the art as the visual or sonic manifestation one encounters, Protocol Art locates the art not in its manifestations but in the work that generates them.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The rules and conditions evolve, and the players can be represented by avatars.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The story that The People’s Beauty Index tells about the industry is that diversity is foundational, hyperlocal recommendations are necessary, and Reddit users see themselves as guides, not aspirational avatars or marketers.
    Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • As a part of its investigation, the department has released those images from surveillance footage.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Watch another teaser, get more information, and see some still images from the series below.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Incarnations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incarnations. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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