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personify
verb as in represent some other being, character
Example Sentences
They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.
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.
“In Black communities, I was able to personify that Black people could be gay and Black people could also live with HIV. And in white gay spaces, I could personify that not all gay people are white.”
Those who seek to govern us seek too to attempt to personify – however imperfectly – the country they seek to lead.
In contrast to his conference speech last autumn, which had the theme of change, he also sought to defend the Conservatives' time in government, while attempting to personify the future.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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