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
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
For most of his life, the Rev. Dr. Norman Kansfield seemed to personify the Reformed Church in America.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024
Finding equivalent candidates who can personify outrage about the Middle East with the longevity, potency and profile of Mr Galloway will be very difficult indeed.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024
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
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