personage
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Stanton is a huge and consequential personage in American history, but she has dwindled in the eyes of posterity to become a subordinate of Anthony.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Musk is a unique personage in the CEO ranks, as the Yale researchers observe — “the world’s wealthiest person and CEO of the most valuable automaker by market capitalization.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 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
And his mind dwelt malevolently on a recent interview he had had with a suave personage in that very street.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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
We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
These personages are broadly sketched, but they needn’t be played quite so cartoonishly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
Making derogatory remarks against Islamic personages is an offence - and in 1982, a clause prescribing life imprisonment for "wilful" desecration of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, was added.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2022
Today, I have appointments with world-famous personages, including some heads of nations.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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