personification
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“He’s the personification of everything that the brand values,” Gomez said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“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
“He’s the personification of the U.S. military, the human representative of everyone who wears the uniform and their families.”
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
He’s the personification of a preschool dance recital.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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
Yet Scott’s script teeters between presenting fully drawn characters and firm personifications, ultimately failing at either.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Pan, Æolus, his numerous progeny, and the Harpies, were also wind divinities who never entirely lost their original character with the Greeks, and were therefore worshiped merely as personifications of the elements.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
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