persona
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Baku also declared 31 Turkish nationals, including an opposition lawmaker and party leaders, persona non grata over critical social media posts.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Fellow traitor Maya Jama also sailed all the way to the final with her cool-as-a-cucumber persona making her a traitor to be reckoned with.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
The limitations are frustrating, Chavez Camacho said, especially “si una persona no sabe leer” — if a person can’t read.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
“He’s a guy who knows how to win a purple district,” Germana had told me, and he’s calibrated his public persona and strategy around that.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
“I am become persona non grata in that quarter. I am no wise welcome in the stateroom imperial.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
“Like a Cat Loves a Bird” separates Spark’s character into 13 personae, each one highlighting an element of her writing that seems to color that part of her personality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
The fantasy that every bad man would get his due, with the violent ones in jail and the manipulative ones made personae non grata, has not played out.
From Slate ● May 29, 2024
In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Initially the two personas were separate; Alexander’s shocking success blurred their distinctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He had a number of different personas during his career including Pac, Adrian Neville and "The Man that Gravity Forgot".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
In “Everything’s Falling,” the Warning contends with self-imposed songwriting limits that boxed them in as children — and tear down old personas to reveal their continuous, however imperfect, process of growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
I’m trying on all sorts of personas today.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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