personage

He continues to use it because he finds that “a fictional personage does exert a slightly disinhibiting effect” on his writing—“always in the service of truth, of course.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Musk is a unique personage in the CEO ranks, as the Yale researchers observe — “the world’s wealthiest person and CEO of the most valuable automaker by market capitalization.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025

Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

It was this realization, along with the fact that he was in M. Dupont's room, presumably addressing this most crucial personage, that caused me to stop my hand from knocking, and continue to listen instead.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

Much will come out in the exchanges between the accidental roommates that alters our perceptions of both, as well as our view of those offstage personages, living and dead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

Marx once wrote that great personages and events appear twice in history: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Making derogatory remarks against Islamic personages is an offence - and in 1982, a clause prescribing life imprisonment for "wilful" desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, was added.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022

Some powerful personages, who were discreedy pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey