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Or do these émigrés personify a loss of faith in America’s future and way of life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Shows like Auction Hunters, Storage Hunters, and Storage Wars began to personify the old saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”—except with objects of value, monetary or sentimental, on the line.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2024

Those who seek to govern us seek too to attempt to personify – however imperfectly – the country they seek to lead.

From BBC ● May 28, 2024

Some early depictions show voladores dressed as birds, perhaps to personify gods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

It was an even more obvious metaphor for Christians, as it was easy to think of God as a legislator imposing laws on nature and to personify nature as obeying him.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

And yet, for some reason, it is the band’s rhythm guitarist who personifies immortality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

In his maqāma, Ibn al-Wardi personifies the plague as a mischievous wanderer who brings death to one region after another over a 15-year journey.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

“The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself,” Jung wrote.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

No nation personifies that process more than the world champions.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

The child personifies the stone that hurts him, and his first impulse is to resent the injury as though he imagined it to be endowed with consciousness, and to be acting with design.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Like her, Uncle Sam personified American ideals and was popularized in the 19th century as the nation developed its own identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The resulting sequence sees her pursued on horseback by death personified, and it remains, 98 years later, a dazzling thrill on the big screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Carlo Ancelotti was coolness personified, and no wonder all his players love him - he is a great football man and human being.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

“Unfortunately, but predictably, it was at the expense of signaling that Lululemon was no longer the leading, premium, cool brand initially personified by its muse.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

To them, a clean-living, hardworking farmer personified the ideal citizen.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

Directed by artistic director Mathew Wright, the solo performance features Alcalá personifying four nurses and a respiratory therapist, using their words, verbatim, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

One banner commemorating the Bill of Rights borrows from Christmas language to proclaim, “Joy to the world — the Bill of Rights is born,” elevating and personifying the document that grants Americans consequential freedoms.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

One of his only hobbies is putting holes in the wall, personifying the imploding of your life once parenthood enters it like a bomb going off.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022

The presence of these two men, personifying respectively action and reaction, revolution and counter-revolution, drew forth from the meeting an obstreperous manifestation, part acclamation, part hisses.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue