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epitome
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    The crowd of predominantly women conferred at that point, knowing that Himmel Street was not exactly the epitome of idyllic Molching living.†  (source)
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    He hated Ellen O'Hara above anyone else, for she was the epitome of all that he hated in Southerners.†  (source)
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    I wanted to see George Wallace, the epitome of all that was wrong with the South.†  (source)
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    Our time on the island had been the epitome of my human life.†  (source)
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    And it epitomized what attracted me to Dad's home.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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    He epitomizes what a real man is: he's honorable, he cares deeply about his family.†  (source)
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    She could speak of the death of Lincoln, and epitomize all the sorrow in the world by telling about an old man, at the Contraband Hospital at Fortress Monroe, who, hearing that Lincoln was dead, lifted his tremulous old voice in prayer: "We kneel upon the ground, with our faces in our hands, and our hands in the dust, and cry to Thee for mercy, O Lord, this evening."†  (source)
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    COMBRAY Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway when we arrived there every year in Holy Week, was no more than a church epitomising the town, representing it, speaking of it and for it to the horizon, and as one drew near, gathering close about its long, dark cloak, sheltering from the wind, on the open plain, as a shepherd gathers his sheep, the woolly grey backs of its flocking houses, which a fragment of its mediaeval ramparts enclosed, here and there, in an outline as scrupulously circular as that of a little town in a primitive painting.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it epitomizing.
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    Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it epitomized.
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    In 1986 the group decided to target Mc-Donald's, later explaining that the company "epitomises everything we despise: a junk culture, the deadly banality of capitalism."†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it epitomizes.
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    Also, because for the moment she was before him so downcast and wistful, epitomizing really all the lure of the old relationship, he put his arms around her and kissed her.†  (source)
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    He was the epitome of a perfect soldier.†  (source)
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    As my father got more difficult, it got to be, for Ty, that the new buildings were what would save us, the marvelous new silos, the new hogs, the new order, epitomized by the Slurrystore, where all the waste from the hogs would be saved until it could be returned to the ground—no runoff, no smell, no waste, a closed loop.†  (source)
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