personify
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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
They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024
Of one starved survivor who wept before him, Kissinger reflected: “Human dignity, objective values have stopped at this barbed wire”—but “as long as conscience exists as a conception in this world you will personify it.”
From Slate • Nov. 30, 2023
Sohn borrowed an idea from his 2009 short “Partly Cloudy,” which included clouds as characters, to personify air that way.
From New York Times • Jun. 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
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