as in incarnation
a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
a portrait of a mother and child that is regarded as the very manifestation of maternal love
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Recent Examples of manifestation
The demon is simply a manifestation of something less bizarre and far uglier.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
Movement meets manifestation with Intuition Kicks for a retail pop-up with tarot readings.
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Kanika Talwar,
Footwear News,
15 June 2026
The Cane Ridge Revival would become an epochal moment in American religious history, one of the most visible manifestations of what historians would later refer to as the Second Great Awakening.
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Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
The pastor was said to have died of a severe abdominal infection, which could have been a manifestation of Ebola.
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Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for manifestation
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
Movement meets manifestation with Intuition Kicks for a retail pop-up with tarot readings.
—
Kanika Talwar,
Footwear News,
15 June 2026
The Cane Ridge Revival would become an epochal moment in American religious history, one of the most visible manifestations of what historians would later refer to as the Second Great Awakening.
—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
The pastor was said to have died of a severe abdominal infection, which could have been a manifestation of Ebola.
—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for manifestation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manifestation
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Newman’s script, which drew critical attention in its earlier short-film incarnation, is structured as an extended confession, the architecture of which places the audience in a peculiar position.
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By now, there have been various incarnations of Mbappe at World Cups.
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Video and images of about 150 strikes against Russian fuel tankers, trucks and other vehicles have been geolocated and analyzed by French open-source analyst Clément Molin and the volunteer-run OSINT group Geoconfirmed, as well as CNN’s OSINT team.
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This is the first time the public has seen the still images and video, as no cameras were allowed inside the courtroom during the trial.
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Uno immediately became an avatar for the city’s jubilant moment.
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Part of the faceless creator economy includes AI influencers and avatars, who have emerged as critical tools for marketers.
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Schlossberg was endorsed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the 86-year-old Democratic icon who met Schlossberg’s grandfather.
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But luckily for Mboladinga, the Congo squad stopped at nothing to ensure its beloved icon made it to North America, going as far as persuading DRC President Félix Tshisekedi to include him in the team’s official delegation.
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Some pastimes are distractions, some are distortions, and some few are true distillations—refining a city or a place or a community to its essence, deliciously sipped by all.
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Like the catchphrase to the Wide World of Sports broadcast that first enthralled Hunt with the World Cup, this was the essence of the thrill of victory contrasting, alas, with the agony of defeat.
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The vitality of her language, its frolicsome dance with personification, communicates its own resistance in the face of an indifferent world, exploited by imperialist greed and barbaric, militant might.
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In the hands of Campbell and Gadd, Ruben, the personification of toxic masculinity, is endowed with a pathos that becomes compelling, even captivating.
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What changed along the way was the gradual incorporation of genre elements.
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The incorporation documents for HAL9001 were signed by the venture capitalist Roman Sobachevskiy.
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Regardless, there’s a clear symbolism to Clark empathizing and embracing a bloated externalization of his own inchoate fury until someone with an outside perspective disturbs his peace, and that fury breaks loose and devours him.
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The trade-off for that short-term satisfaction is the externalization of a thinking process that used to live inside a junior associate’s head.
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“Manifestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manifestation. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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