personage

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Recent Examples of personage At midcentury, Marianne Moore emerged as a public personage, but not before a painful period of loss. Susan Gubar june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025 Once, some 2,000 years ago, so many such personages (then known as barbarians) came to Paris simultaneously that the city was destroyed. Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025 The scenario’s bachelor No. 2 arrives in the brooding personage of Oliver (Charlie Anson), the great-great-great-great-nephew of Austen herself. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025 In order to become a celebrity, a person necessarily becomes a personage. Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for personage
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Noun
  • In addition to being functional, these waterproof boots are stylish, too(even celebrities like Kate Winslet appreciate a fall Chelsea boot).
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Besides religion, what are other possible reasons a person might have executed a forgery?
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For him, this means refusing to court TikTok personalities, to pander to trends, or to tie his star to a viral moment or an It bag.
    Rob Haskell, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Remoteness draws the witness — or victim — forward and into the circle of the predator’s personality.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jones was chosen from among seven applicants -- six men and one woman -- living in Zone 4.
    Edward McKinnon, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2025
  • By the mid-1970s, women spent much less time cooking, and men picked up little of the slack.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As for whether the Galaxy Quest star would ever reprise her role as the iconic heroine Ripley?
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • So far this season, the 22-year-old star has caught 19 passes for 225 yards in four games.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That’s partly because scientists know relatively little about what makes marine life sick.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Join 400,000+ life-long learners exploring and improving with the world’s biggest thinkers.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the country’s National Security Council, was among foreign dignitaries at the Pyongyang parade.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • When Ghana declared independence, in 1957, dignitaries from around the world descended on the capital, Accra.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The interim coach that season is the same guy who will try to devise a plan to slow the Panthers’ rushing attack Sunday — Jets defensive coordinator Steve Wilks.
    Joseph Person, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • And there was the Michigan accent and the fact that the guy doesn’t shut up.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Personage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personage. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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