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From its roots, incorporate means basically "add into a body" or "form into a body". So, for example, a chef might decide to incorporate a couple of new ingredients into an old recipe, and then might incorporate that new item into the restaurant's dinner menu. The restaurant itself was probably incorporated at the beginning, and so is now a corporation—that is, a "body" that's legally allowed to act like a single person in certain ways, even if it may have many individual employees. As you can see, the two meanings turn out to be fairly different.
Examples of incorporate in a Sentence
Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
Purchase in the cherry shade to seamlessly incorporate this fall’s trending color into your wardrobe.
—Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
Good Housekeeping, 6 Jan. 2023
This new exhibition examines how like artists like Eadweard Muybridge, Andy Warhol, Carl Pope Jr., Lorna Simpson and more incorporate photographic images in their work with a focus on the tools, techniques and processes at their disposal.
—Joey Morona, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
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“Incorporate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incorporate. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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