typified

past tense of typify

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Verb
  • Traditional business moats are eroding, exemplified by Chegg's collapse, as the market prices certainty into an inherently uncertain technology, causing unprecedented volatility and layoffs.
    Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Those scares are best exemplified by the film’s most inventive setpiece, where Gemma gets lost in an endless pillow fort filled with baddies around every corner.
    William Earl, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Observers say the activists' prosecution and the disappearance of the vigil symbolized the loss of freedoms that Beijing promised to maintain for 50 years when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • China’s new strategy, symbolized by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea in June, aims to draw Pyongyang back into its orbit and make the bilateral relationship more stable and manageable.
    ZHENG JIYONG, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The congressman’s hour-and-a-half drive to Sedalia illustrated the distance of the sweeping 5th Congressional District, which stretches east from Troost Avenue to rural mid-Missouri.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Again, the psychiatrist said Clancy’s reaction illustrated an understanding her actions were wrong.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
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“Typified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typified. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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