personages

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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2024

But foreign governments, political parties and "friendly personages" will not be invited to send delegations or representatives to China to attend the mourning activities, the official Xinhua news agency said.

From Reuters • Dec. 1, 2022

Marx once wrote that great personages and events appear twice in history: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Making derogatory remarks against Islamic personages is an offence - and in 1982, a clause prescribing life imprisonment for "wilful" desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, was added.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2022

No. The personages of this establishment were rigidly selectioned.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway