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personify

[per-son-uh-fahy] / pərˈsɒn əˌfaɪ /


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Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, in tone, style and emphasis personify the previously big C and still small C conservatism of their patches.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025

Shows like Auction Hunters, Storage Hunters, and Storage Wars began to personify the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”—except with objects of value, monetary or sentimental, on the line.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024

Some early depictions show voladores dressed as birds, perhaps to personify gods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

A good story requires characters, and Mr. Kukushkin personifies atoms, chemicals, even entire biological kingdoms, using whimsical drama to illustrate fundamental principles of biochemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

In his maqāma, Ibn al-Wardi personifies the plague as a mischievous wanderer who brings death to one region after another over a 15-year journey.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

“The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself,” Jung wrote.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

But it plays into the timing of a reshuffle too because which minister personifies the idea more than any other?

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2023

Having established this difference in principle, Merezhkovsky, by constant deduction, concludes, in consonance with his favorite idea, that Tolstoy personifies "the pagan spirit" at its height, while Dostoyevsky represents "the Christian spirit."

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky

Hammond is ebullience and warmth personified but her co-presenter, the erstwhile Mighty Boosh comedian Fielding, still looks a bit lost, as if he has wandered in from the wrong set.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

He personified the globalization that brought billions out of poverty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

These building blocks of the fest are personified by the big red “Netflix Is a Joke” blocks found on almost every stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

“Unfortunately, but predictably, it was at the expense of signaling that Lululemon was no longer the leading, premium, cool brand initially personified by its muse.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

There are texts from Maya, who saw me on the news and thinks I’m dope personified, and texts from Chris.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas

All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Directed by artistic director Mathew Wright, the solo performance features Alcalá personifying four nurses and a respiratory therapist, using their words, verbatim, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

One of his only hobbies is putting holes in the wall, personifying the imploding of your life once parenthood enters it like a bomb going off.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

On the other side of town is another, equally imposing statue personifying the Italian stonemasons who also brought their skills to Barre.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

Seven divisions of Cosmos, seven regions, seven spirits personifying celestial bodies and moral qualities.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall




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