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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
epitomise .
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Examples
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It was the madness in his method and message, the man revered by millions of racists in southern Africa and around the world, whose very name epitomises the notion of European settler colonialism.
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It was the madness in his method and message, the man revered by millions of racists in southern Africa and around the world, whose very name epitomises the notion of European settler colonialism.
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"The Fringe kind of epitomises that: it's the biggest festival in the southern hemisphere and it does showcase all artforms.
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Ryan Shawcross epitomises how many outsiders see Stoke: big, tough and not afraid to win ugly.
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But the trend has its benefits for the more ambitious film-makers he epitomises.
Steve James hails a 'golden age of documentary film-making' 2011
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Stuart Pearce epitomises the 'passion' that Arsenal are supposed to lack but even the most rousing display of passion is as much about showboating as any prancing triple stepover.
Arsenal's failure to win trophies is not down to faint hearts | Barney Ronay 2011
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Object is a campaign that I have only just came across, but it epitomises a lot of what I have been arguing on many of my blog posts.
Women object to being treated as objects « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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According to Slotover, Jopling, a good friend to both Hugh Grant and Allen's father, the hell-raising actor Keith, epitomises the lack of class snobbery he sees in the contemporary art world.
Jay Jopling: portrait of the perfect gallerist | profile 2011
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The shrill battering of xylophones and shrieking of dissonant brass epitomises that era of Soviet music in which Prokofiev and Shostakovich took precedence.
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If any single piece epitomises the beauty and the hypnotic power of Morton Feldman's final works, it is Piano and String Quartet, composed in 1985, just two years before his death.
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