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

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

‘Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance’ It’s your last weekend to catch this exhibition featuring portraits of royals, courtiers, scholars and other once-prominent personages painted by 16th-century German artist Hans Holbein the Younger.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Indeed, some of the personages were Jewish, and this fact alone should demonstrate how nonsensical is much of what has been said about his lordship.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro