manifestations

noun

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 Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026 Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories. — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026 The 1905 law explicitly mentions religious ceremonies, processions and other outdoor manifestations as subject to the ordinary rules governing public order. — ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026 Sports are in the midst of a global makeover from narrow manifestations of tribal interest to mainstays of the monoculture. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026 The exhibit, which professes to illustrate storytelling through art in its earliest manifestations, is a jarring introduction to a museum that houses 1,300 original works. — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Each playing manifestations of those possibilities are Gabriel Basso, Aaron Pierre and Patrick Schwarzenegger. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for manifestations
  1. incarnations
  2. images
  3. avatars
  4. icons
  5. personifications
  6. abstracts
  7. essences
Noun
  • One of the true survivors The 71-year-old Zeiler is one of the true survivors of the various incarnations of Warner Bros over the past 14 years.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Afterwards, a video tribute played on the big screens, featuring a montage of moments of Hansard performing in numerous incarnations at Ohana over the past decade.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of incarnations
Noun
  • The hotel plays up its proximity to ACL Live, with framed photographs of the show and an Austin City Limits coffee table book of images captured by the same photographer.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Some Russian online media late Tuesday also posted the images.
    — SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • In the run-up to this year’s campaign, the AI in Elections Observatory recorded 29 cases of AI avatars like Dona Maria, though no other synthfakes obtained her level of notoriety.
    — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Like Muse, Dots have blobby, anthropomorphic avatars and customizable names.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of avatars
Noun
  • Look for carvings featuring comic book icons, Halloween movies, Cubs baseball and more.
    — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • After six episodes of treating the rap legend’s rhyme book like a museum, with Rubin serving as curator and prompting his friend and collaborator to pick apart his own lyrics, the two music icons simply sit down and talk.
    — John Kennedy, VIBE.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of icons
Noun
  • 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
Definition of personifications
Noun
  • Scroll down past the first five abstracts for the research in question.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of abstracts
Noun
  • Wittgenstein proposed to abandon the appeal to essences for the concept of family resemblance.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of essences

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“Manifestations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manifestations. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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