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In his studied inscrutability Warsh was emulating his role model and the man who came to personify what it means to be a central banker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

Some early depictions show voladores dressed as birds, perhaps to personify gods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 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

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

Calliope, receiving the stylus and tablets from Apollo, personifies poetry and its rhythm; Polyhymnia, finger on lips, represents mime.

From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky

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

These building blocks of the fest are personified by the big red “Netflix Is a Joke” blocks found on almost every stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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

Watching Alcaraz is, for the most part, like watching sunshine personified.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

Moss had never seen panic personified, but that is what this man had become.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

"While I was clothing your imagination, personifying to you that vile creature!"

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick