persona
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Becerra’s campaign leaned into his milquetoast persona and crowned him Tío Xavier — Uncle Xavier — to market him as a non-threatening moderate who happened to be Latino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The same could be said for Romesh Ranganathan - who, in a departure from his usual cynical, deadpan stand-up persona, seemed really to care about his fellow cast members.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
The limitations are frustrating, Chavez Camacho said, especially “si una persona no sabe leer” — if a person can’t read.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
“He’s a guy who knows how to win a purple district,” Germana had told me, and he’s calibrated his public persona and strategy around that.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
The anonymity and disconnectedness of the Internet allows me to present that persona to you.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
But it is in fact a generic program for implementing various scripts, or personae, the most famous of them being Doctor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The WFP said directors of its Sudan operation were declared "personae non grata" and told to go within 72 hours, without explanation.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025
It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
In the case of marrying, the dramatis personae include the person being married and the person doing the marrying.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
But wait — he has no soul, just wires, processors, fluid and whatnot, plus a set of AI personas guiding his interactions with the human world.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Initially the two personas were separate; Alexander’s shocking success blurred their distinctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
In “Everything’s Falling,” the Warning contends with self-imposed songwriting limits that boxed them in as children — and tear down old personas to reveal their continuous, however imperfect, process of growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
For those few months in sixth grade, Kim and I shed our good-girl personas.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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