personage
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And always there is Mama, who haunted her life and haunts her memoir, though Ms. Minnelli wants it understood that she’s her own personage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
The omnipresent Emcee, a queer Jack Be Nimble, can’t be dragged to the camps because he is a thematic stage presence, more a spirit than a depicted personage with a before/during/after narrative governed by reality.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
One day, Lockshin and his classmates marched across the cobblestones of Red Square to Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to pay tribute to the waxy corpse of the country’s most sacred personage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Indeed, I heard several times his lordship express the view that without the participation of such a personage, any discussion on the topic of Germany would be little more than an indulgence.
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
This deeply researched study examines how AI systems create “abstract people”: statistical confections, subject profiles and anthropomorphic personages that increasingly substitute for humans in digital environments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
Nesbit and Beattie alone are still with us, but it seems like only six months ago, to me at least, when all these personages were striding the planet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing personage
Excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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"The Lady, or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton, List 2
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