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

Core to his brand as prime minister is attempting to personify the opposite: hoping to be seen as dependable, believable, credible, trustworthy.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023

But when they told of the coming of love and light the early storytellers were setting the scene for the appearance of mankind, and they began to personify more precisely.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton