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Recent Examples of typify
The new apartment building at 3627-3633 N. Sheffield typifies this troublesome direction.
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Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Meeting in Munich This combination of carping about America, bickering with each other, and grandstanding for the cameras has typified European responses to the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022, and the three years of war that followed.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Mayotte typifies what is happening to small island nations and the Global South.
—Ken Silverstein, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
That month, Columbia President Nemat Shafik abandoned the defiant posture that typified the stance Ivy League presidents had previously assumed.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Mar. 2025
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Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
Meeting in Munich This combination of carping about America, bickering with each other, and grandstanding for the cameras has typified European responses to the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022, and the three years of war that followed.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Mayotte typifies what is happening to small island nations and the Global South.
—Ken Silverstein, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
That month, Columbia President Nemat Shafik abandoned the defiant posture that typified the stance Ivy League presidents had previously assumed.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for typify
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The piece exemplifies the power of citizen journalism to provide raw, intimate storytelling where traditional media access is restricted, offering a vital and humanizing perspective on a deeply complex conflict.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
1 May 2025
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This shift refocuses the conversation from tracking progress to building capacity—exemplifying the coaching orientation that modern management requires.—
Michael Hudson,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The image symbolizes the end of the American campaign in the Pacific during World War II.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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Tea, a new beverage for most Bengalis, symbolized new social patterns.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 May 2025
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The collection illustrates the LVERS philosophy at the core of the Louis Vuitton Studio Prêt-à-Porter Homme: the values and discernment that bind together its global community from Paris to Miami and everywhere in between, according to a press release by the house.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
9 May 2025
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The Gulf’s swelling economic and diplomatic clout has corresponded with interests replacing ideology as the chief driver of foreign policy, as illustrated by the remarkable (though ultimately aborted) negotiations toward the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 May 2025
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The luxury Korean skincare brand embodies how beauty can be an art form in itself.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Extending the sounds of different voices story after story ad infinitum, My First Time suggests that these individual moments of recognition embody a kind of collective trauma that is continually on repeat.—
Ivy G. Wilson,
Artforum,
1 May 2025
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“Typify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typify. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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