personification
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Ms. Acton, who holds degrees in medicine and public health, thus found herself the personification of public health, for Ohio’s 12 million residents, during the worst medical crisis in the past century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Bale blossomed into an otherworldly talent who went on to achieve feats beyond any of his countrymen, the personification of Wales' golden generation.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Finally, fittingly, with Monday’s lucrative contract extension, there’s also no more asterisk on Dave Roberts himself, a worthy successor and daily personification of the great Lasorda.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
When they do finally meet, “it’s an explosion, like the personification of an unstoppable force colliding with an immovable object,” said Watts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025
With his gentle demeanor, Gandhi seemed the very personification of nonviolence, and he insisted that the campaign be run along identical lines to that of his father’s in India.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
Veiled women became a visible symbol of the government’s level of control over society — black-clad personifications of state power.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Neither of the Haywoods feel quite like “real” people but rather like heightened personifications of artists hungry to become part of the movie-making business — no matter the cost.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Surrounding Usher are personifications of his inner voices, six taunting denizens of his psyche that nag and mock, undermine and throw shade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
The theory of dæmons completely superseded the old Stoical naturalism, which regarded the different Pagan divinities as allegories or personifications of the Divine attributes.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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