Thesaurus results for MANIFESTATIONS

manifestations

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plural of manifestation

as in incarnations

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 manifestations Many Hindus today identify as Shaivas, Vaishnavas, or Shaktas, sectarian groups that, respectively, worship Shiva, Vishnu, or Shakti as supreme, with all other deities considered as manifestations or subordinates. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 Pursued by monstrous entities and confronted by manifestations of human suffering, Dante and Virgil will eventually come face to face with the Devil himself. — Ed Meza, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026 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 Although there is no moral equivalence between the two, both are manifestations of the same problem. — Rina Amiri, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026 Perhaps one of the clearest manifestations of the destination’s modern identity is the famed Fairmont Chateau Whistler, which was voted the best resort in Canada in Travel + Leisure’s 2026 World’s Best Awards. — Vivian Chung, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026 Evolutionary biologist Rowan Hooper’s exploration of the many manifestations of symbiotic collaboration. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026 In Salento, each town nestled into a shallow valley or slim rise has its own dialectal name for the almond in its varied manifestations—as tree, as fruit, as orchard. — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026

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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

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Unlike conventional stereo systems, which mainly calculate horizontal differences between images from parallel cameras, CBS accounts for both horizontal and vertical disparities created when cameras converge on a target.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Many accounts posting these images are verified on X and appear to be anonymous.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 27 Aug. 2026

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In years past, Farel and his team from Farel Salon & Spa have hosted tennis icons including Coco Gauff, Iga Świątek, Aryna Sabalenka, Naomi Osaka, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz, Patrick McEnroe, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and more.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Two beloved entertainment icons, born just three months apart in 1946, died at the same age on the same day.

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of icons

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Industry is where innocence goes to die, choked out in bed by various personifications of greed.

— Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
These three deities are thought to be personifications of the Dao who inhabit the highest realms of the Daoist cosmos, far from the dust of day-to-day life.

— Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 2026

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The New York Times first reported Tuesday that two COVID vaccine papers and abstracts of studies on a shingles vaccine were blocked by FDA officials.

— Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 6 May 2026
In addition, the Times learned that FDA officials did not allow agency scientists to submit two abstracts for studies on Shingrix, a shingles vaccine, to a major drug safety conference.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026

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