personify

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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

Senior voices in government counter that Starmer and Reeves personify the modern Labour Party in government.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2024

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

But when they told of the coming of love and light the early storytellers were setting the scene for the appearance of mankind, and they began to personify more precisely.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton