personified

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In 1969, Bardot came to embody the nation itself after President Charles de Gaulle chose her as a new model for Marianne: a mythical figure that has personified the French Republic since the revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Even Verstappen, who has looked relaxation personified so far this weekend, admitted to some nerves before qualifying, but said that he fed off them, and they had help him perform.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

In fact, Eric Twilegar personified the social attitude of the hard-core geek—distance, anger, alienation.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz