persona
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Fellow traitor Maya Jama also sailed all the way to the final with her cool-as-a-cucumber persona making her a traitor to be reckoned with.
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 film, which marks the comedian's debut as a director, revives the persona that originated in a British television segment and went on to star in "Da Ali G Show."
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
And with the accent emerged a new persona, apologetic and self-abasing.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Like a Cat Loves a Bird” separates Spark’s character into 13 personae, each one highlighting an element of her writing that seems to color that part of her personality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
She might “create a new persona,” as she says on “I Feel So Free,” but even her personae are versions of her true self.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
In one respect, the dramatis personae in Kananaskis helps.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
The fantasy that every bad man would get his due, with the violent ones in jail and the manipulative ones made personae non grata, has not played out.
From Slate ● May 29, 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
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
US government lawyers pushed back against the brothers' claims that they had exaggerated their wealth to massage their online personas.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
General Mills said GLP-1 users share some needs and behaviors with another of its personas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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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