persona
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The move prompted a furious reaction from the Peruvian government and triggered a diplomatic tit-for-tat, which included Peru's Congress voting to declare Sheinbaum persona non grata.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
One Gen Z persona told me that she was worried about the job market, which only felt a little ironic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
He adopted a kinder, more family-friendly public persona while also embracing fatherhood - he has three children via surrogacy.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Spinning that lore for a modern audience, then, calls for fronting the cast with a star whose popular persona is outsized compared to his dramatic proficiency.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
For almost six years he had been persona non grata.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
“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
In one respect, the dramatis personae in Kananaskis helps.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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
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
It created fake personas and emailed the software developers repeatedly, urging them to accept the new code.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Of course, there is something absurd about celebrity chefs needing fake mustaches, prosthetics or entire undercover personas to determine that a restaurant is poorly run.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Known for his signature "cop" and "admiral" stage personas, Willis left the group in 1980.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
When AI engineer Malcolm was working at a data analysis firm, executives wanted to use generative AI to categorise the customer database into a range of personas.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Everything about our online personas is filtered through our avatars, which allows us to control how we look and sound to others.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Vocabulary lists containing persona
Poetry: Literary Devices
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