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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

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

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

A good story requires characters, and Mr. Kukushkin personifies atoms, chemicals, even entire biological kingdoms, using whimsical drama to illustrate fundamental principles of biochemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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

But in some ways he personifies the late pontiff's legacy in his country.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

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

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

It was his benefactor and guide—he personifies it—and his boyish friendship had grown stronger and more intimate by mutual good offices.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

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

Through her, Maddy personified a new kind of Latina baddie — one who defied constraints, and carried herself with a confidence that asked the rest of the world to meet her on her terms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

Literally, I take a two-second photograph, and now I’m obstruction personified.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

All were revolutionaries, changing the character of the world they inhabited and personifying the inventiveness at the heart of the American character itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Beatriz plays with a spectrum that wasn’t available to her as Rosa Diaz in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” personifying the balance Schur and his writers strike between serious matters and laughter.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024

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

On the other side of town is another, equally imposing statue personifying the Italian stonemasons who also brought their skills to Barre.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

The wonderful personifying power of the early imagination can hardly be better illustrated than by the deification of the soma juice.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang