persona
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She projects a likeable persona, but her candidacy inspires no one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
His pace, energy and on-pitch persona propelled him into the public consciousness and into contention for international honours.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
For just as long, critics have ripped into his eccentric on-stage persona; still, Thompson has enjoyed one of the longest-running residencies in Las Vegas, playing shows at the Luxor Hotel & Casino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
She doesn’t . . . but a production-inserted twist does, because the self-serving persona Coco creates is too good to let go.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
After I’d been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
To answer that question, you have to meet a couple of the other dramatis personae in this particular farce.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
As the mood of the nation sours on Silicon Valley’s vision for the future, Flock cameras and data centers have become personae non grata in several communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
In one respect, the dramatis personae in Kananaskis helps.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
US government lawyers pushed back against the brothers' claims that they had exaggerated their wealth to massage their online personas.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“The scheme relied on Love’s creation of fictitious personas and display of a lavish lifestyle which Love presented to victims both in person and on social media websites,” federal authorities said in a press release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ideological differences aside, the personas and careers of Messrs. Vance and Obama bear weird similarities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
For those few months in sixth grade, Kim and I shed our good-girl personas.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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