personage
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They serve as a stand-in for Porter himself, who, though absent in the flesh, nevertheless is the central personage around which these myriad dynamics revolve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The omnipresent Emcee, a queer Jack Be Nimble, can’t be dragged to the camps because he is a thematic stage presence, more a spirit than a depicted personage with a before/during/after narrative governed by reality.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
Another obit is devoted to Eileen Fox, a former bohemian who was a well-known personage — plump, untidy and always carrying plastic bags full of her things — on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
The Reverend Dameron, a Dickensian personage, an unctuous and jolly brimstone-and-damnation orator, was minister of the Grandview Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, the church the Andrews family attended regularly.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Much will come out in the exchanges between the accidental roommates that alters our perceptions of both, as well as our view of those offstage personages, living and dead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
This deeply researched study examines how AI systems create “abstract people”: statistical confections, subject profiles and anthropomorphic personages that increasingly substitute for humans in digital environments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
"These films seek to challenge what we think we know about historical personages or important historical incidents. They are out to create a new alt-history."
From BBC ● May 3, 2024
Some powerful personages, who were discreedy pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing personage
Excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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"The Lady, or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton, List 2
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