personification
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“He’s the personification of everything that the brand values,” Gomez said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I write about my Papi as the puckish personification of immigrant America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Ms. Acton, who holds degrees in medicine and public health, thus found herself the personification of public health, for Ohio’s 12 million residents, during the worst medical crisis in the past century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kelly is well-known among team-mates for being the personification of the modern Lionesses.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
Her sharp cheekbones and arched eyebrows make her look like the personification of high fashion.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
If the "Sex and the City" universe is a fantasia of materialist gloss tethered to reality by genuine truths, then the personifications of this idea should maintain a crumb of constancy.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2023
Veiled women became a visible symbol of the government’s level of control over society — black-clad personifications of state power.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
I think of these objects as personifications, as having the capacity to be storytellers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Neither of the Haywoods feel quite like “real” people but rather like heightened personifications of artists hungry to become part of the movie-making business — no matter the cost.
From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2022
Now, it is hardly possible that personifications of evil are dumb or deaf.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
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