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
Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 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
So the first real hero of the atomic age, if not the first personage on the scene, was Ernest Rutherford.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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