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personify
verb as in represent some other being, character
Example Sentences
McConville, a widow ripped from her home as her 10 crying children helplessly watch, personifies what happens when the battlefield extends into civilian neighborhoods.
No nation personifies that process more than the world champions.
Asians were specifically targeted because they personified difference, she explained.
They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.
Earlier in the day, she told a congregation of black church-goers near Atlanta, Georgia, to vote against “chaos, fear and hate” – personified, she suggested, by her Republican rival.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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