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
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
After “The Look of Silence” premiered in 2014, no less a personage than Werner Herzog told Oppenheimer he should do a fiction film next.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024
Security Council’s five permanent members, only the United States, in the personage of President Joe Biden, spoke.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
He was a personage of quite another order from the great hero of Athens, Theseus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
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