personified

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Two adorable lovebirds—maximally adorable, as they are personified by two of our brightest stars, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson—are about to get married.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Amid today’s choppy college football waters, Tim Skipper is leadership personified, steering a unified ship even in defeat.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

He had been solidity personified since the start of the year, and unquestionably the leading McLaren driver to that point of the season.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In fact, Eric Twilegar personified the social attitude of the hard-core geek—distance, anger, alienation.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz