personification
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“He’s the personification of everything that the brand values,” said Chief Marketing Officer Carly Gomez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I write about my Papi as the puckish personification of immigrant America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Ms. Acton, who holds degrees in medicine and public health, thus found herself the personification of public health, for Ohio’s 12 million residents, during the worst medical crisis in the past century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
His KC Tony Graham said Phoenix's family and friends were likely to regard Methven as the "personification of evil".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
But then, when I was the personification of evil, I was going through it.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
I think of these objects as personifications, as having the capacity to be storytellers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Neither of the Haywoods feel quite like “real” people but rather like heightened personifications of artists hungry to become part of the movie-making business — no matter the cost.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Some people who would like to mitigate the harm of these behaviors have clearly recognized the value of turning to those personifications of celluloid masculinity.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 29, 2020
Now, it is hardly possible that personifications of evil are dumb or deaf.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
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