personages

plural of personage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of personages Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time. Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for personages
Noun
  • Just over a week later, two men, Destry Jones, 20, and Damien Hinson, 18, were arrested in connection with the incident.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Recent research suggests that young men in low-income communities are particularly affected by financial consequences tied to sports gambling.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And even more reliable than a bunch of fun-size Snickers in your candy collection are the celebrities who take the occasion to go all-out for the holiday.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In nearby Pine Plains, Browne meets us at Stissing House, a restaurant beloved by locals and celebrities alike.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But Jerry realized that their contrasting features, backgrounds and personalities made fertile ground for comedy, and Stiller & Meara was born.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Being isolated in the mountains, with a constant sense of danger and threat – coming either from across the border or from one’s own country – shapes the characters’ personalities.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If Elsbeth doesn’t believe that the blameless Chop and his team of props guys did it, what about all of the men who like to visit Beryl at all hours of the evening?
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Some guys got to be the tough guy.
    Darnell Mayberry, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But who are the actors who make these figures so frighteningly iconic?
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Reportedly, the company intends to reuse the fundamental robotic core — which houses the complex multimodal interaction and motion-control technology — to create a diverse range of new figures.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The performers are shown living their lives on the circus backlot, having relationships, building families, and participating in the performance life and ecosystem of the circus.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Women typically spend the middle 60% of their lives in relatively ill-health, due to hormonal changes, diagnostic delays, and other factors, and the last 30% of their lives in relatively good health.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Farther up, on Observatory Hill, tall cryptomeria trees were silhouetted in the darkening evening, and down in the valleys, lights winked on like reflections of the planets and stars appearing in the sky.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For context, the brightest stars are around Mag +1, while a full moon is -13 and the sun is -27.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Aneurysms form when a weak spot develops in a blood vessel wall, often due to things like high blood pressure, smoking, or genetics.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Meghan’s travel formula is warm, comfortable, and practical for holiday getaways, which is why now is a good time to copy her pieces before things really get busy.
    Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Personages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personages. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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