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a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
he's the personification of kindness
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Recent Examples of personifications
Industry is where innocence goes to die, choked out in bed by various personifications of greed.
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Judy Berman, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
This lawless crew shares dramaturgical DNA with the vice figures from medieval morality plays, personifications of sinfulness who would confide their schemes to the audience and make theatergoers their co-conspirators in a riveting game that obviously left its mark on a young Shakespeare.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Judy Berman, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
This lawless crew shares dramaturgical DNA with the vice figures from medieval morality plays, personifications of sinfulness who would confide their schemes to the audience and make theatergoers their co-conspirators in a riveting game that obviously left its mark on a young Shakespeare.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for personifications
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But on Monday, the French pharma firm reported that clinical trial results showed its experimental oral drug venglustat improved the neurological manifestations of what’s known as type 3 Gaucher disease, which can include poor muscle coordination and cognitive issues.—
Andrew Joseph,
STAT,
2 Feb. 2026
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These sorcerers combat monstrous manifestations of negative human emotion, known as Curses, using a parallel energy source called Cursed Energy.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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As the investigation into the shooting unfolded, detectives showed still images of Neves-Valente taken from surveillance video to several shooting victims.—
Ashley Carnahan,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Milan — Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banned him from wearing his helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine.—
Aleks Klosok,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The original cast had changed the medium, and there had already been a couple of incarnations to follow.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Feb. 2026
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Those intensive collages implied, and even staged, his successive incarnations across six decades of musical self-reinvention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Fashion brands are also cashing in on AI avatars.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Broncos fans have rallied around their backup quarterback, with thousands of fans changing their social media avatars to a picture of Stidham’s face, photoshopped with sunglasses and headphones, imitating a LeBron James meme.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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“Personifications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personifications. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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