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Their new captain, Andy Burnham, is of towering ambition, claiming he will personify "the most significant change" in our politics in 40 years.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

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

Some early depictions show voladores dressed as birds, perhaps to personify gods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

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

A good story requires characters, and Mr. Kukushkin personifies atoms, chemicals, even entire biological kingdoms, using whimsical drama to illustrate fundamental principles of biochemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

In his maqāma, Ibn al-Wardi personifies the plague as a mischievous wanderer who brings death to one region after another over a 15-year journey.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

“The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself,” Jung wrote.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025

I ask her what it best personifies about L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

We need only pause to note Chesterton personifies this dualism.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

“Unfortunately, but predictably, it was at the expense of signaling that Lululemon was no longer the leading, premium, cool brand initially personified by its muse.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

The AI, meanwhile, is personified to the cast and crew, who know nothing about it, as someone named “Al,” who “works remotely.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

He personified America as the empire of “hope”—a favorite Jackson word.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Watching Alcaraz is, for the most part, like watching sunshine personified.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

And then she was just there, right in front of him, like some sort of huge cosmic coincidence personified.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

There’s an obvious objection to all this: It sounds as if we’re naively personifying a giant math problem, mistaking statistical patterns for sentience—falling for the oldest anthropomorphic error in the book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

Beatriz plays with a spectrum that wasn’t available to her as Rosa Diaz in “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” personifying the balance Schur and his writers strike between serious matters and laughter.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2024

Directed by artistic director Mathew Wright, the solo performance features Alcalá personifying four nurses and a respiratory therapist, using their words, verbatim, about working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

On the other side of town is another, equally imposing statue personifying the Italian stonemasons who also brought their skills to Barre.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

The Apostle speaks as if he were personifying the blood and ascribing to the slain man the faith which he had manifested before.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards