as in subjective
of, relating to, or belonging to a single person
he kept personal items in a separate drawer
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Recent Examples of personal
But over the past few years, conservatives have used the committee as a personal tool to subvert and challenge GOP leaders.
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Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
Lapaglia and Richards, hosts of the Barstool Sports podcast BFFs, are known for sharing their personal and hilarious bits to their 400,000 monthly listeners.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Financial literacy in the NIL era Bueckers’ eye-opening introduction to personal finance is a trial by fire shared with many young athletes, some of whom experience a whirlwind rise to success only to see their wealth slip away when their tenure as professional athletes ends.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
The relative offered a coda to the shipwreck discovery story with a personal, and emotional, one of his own.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
Lapaglia and Richards, hosts of the Barstool Sports podcast BFFs, are known for sharing their personal and hilarious bits to their 400,000 monthly listeners.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Financial literacy in the NIL era Bueckers’ eye-opening introduction to personal finance is a trial by fire shared with many young athletes, some of whom experience a whirlwind rise to success only to see their wealth slip away when their tenure as professional athletes ends.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
The relative offered a coda to the shipwreck discovery story with a personal, and emotional, one of his own.
—Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for personal
Adjective
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The inability, or decision not, to sell players who would have boosted the club’s spending power is a subjective call made by United’s key decision-makers that will never sit right with some supporters.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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The 49-year-old star has now decided to step behind the camera with her feature debut, Girl (Nühai), delivering a deeply subjective and occasionally jarring portrait of a teenager growing up in the 1980s.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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When enabled, the feature allows Google to collect your search and activity history and provide personalized search results and ads.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2025
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Nutritional biomarkers, including the levels of Vitamin D and B12, meanwhile, can help inform personalized dietary guidance for a longer health span.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In some states where there is no anonymity for individual winners, people can still claim prizes anonymously through private trusts.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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But the new private terminal is winning their support, with the backing of historians and preservationists who have been fighting to maintain South Florida’s aviation legacy in a region known for tearing down buildings.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Solid local population counts are hard to come by, especially for individual Burmese ethnic groups.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Athletic revealed last Wednesday that Brazilian Luiz Fernando Iubel has joined Liverpool as the club’s new individual development lead coach.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Personal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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