From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishepitomizee‧pit‧o‧mize (also epitomise British English) /ɪˈpɪtəmaɪz/ verb [transitive] TYPICALto be a very typical example of something This building epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century.→ See Verb table
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epitomize• But the group dynamic during the wrangle between Rice and Knickerbocker epitomized Black Mountain at its most dystopian.• Wired, the San Francisco-based magazine that has come to epitomize cyberspace culture, is considering an initial public offering.• This option is the one epitomized in the writings of John Hick.• Freni traditionally epitomized poignancy and lyric charm, tinged with a measure of sensuality.• Cass Avenue epitomizes the city's economic and social depression.• The auto assembly line epitomizes the conditions that contribute to employee dissatisfaction.• His poems epitomize the feelings of the generation of soldiers that fought in World War I.• His career epitomizes the interactions between the obligations of patron and client and the public service under the old administrative system.• And that the word AM0R was the reverse in spelling of R0MA seemed marvelously to epitomize the sense of the contrast. 