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
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
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
To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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