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instantiations

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a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) a generation that regarded Susan Sontag as the instantiation of the modern urban intellectual

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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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After a drone lands, the CLARKE system can analyze images without an internet connection, and teams can then send compact reports detailing building damage and road conditions, rather than huge image files.

— Zoë Schiffer, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
However, the available images do not establish whether the pods represent a permanent upgrade, a testing configuration, or an operational capability.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 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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