Meaning & use

Epitomizing

verb·Academic

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Being a perfect example of a quality or type; representing the essential features of something in a condensed form.

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Her calm leadership during the crisis was epitomizing what the team needed most.

The skyline, with its glass towers, is epitomizing the city's rapid modernization.

A note on using this word

Epitomize comes from 'epitome,' originally a Greek word for a summary or abridgment, which later came to mean a perfect representative example.

Words with a similar meaning

exemplifyingembodyingtypifying

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