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personifications

noun

plural of personification

as in manifestations

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) he's the personification of kindness

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Recent Examples of personifications Phobos and Deimos take their names from the Greek mythological personifications of fear and terror, sons of the war god Ares, whose Roman counterpart is Mars. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026 Industry is where innocence goes to die, choked out in bed by various personifications of greed. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026 These three deities are thought to be personifications of the Dao who inhabit the highest realms of the Daoist cosmos, far from the dust of day-to-day life. — Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 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

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Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of manifestations

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Mike Flanagan’s story loosely co-opts the villain origin tale behind many of those incarnations — actor with an ax to grind gains shapeshifting abilities — but otherwise starts more or less from scratch.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
In Israel’s first decades, most Palestinian votes went to the Jewish-Arab Communist Party, in its various incarnations, or to Arab lists – parties affiliated with the ruling Labor movement and acting on its behalf.

— Tamir Sorek, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of incarnations

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In the first trailer that was released online over the summer, the four core characters appear in the real world as stilted versions of their video game avatars.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
To test for authenticity, GLG is doing additional screening and ID verification — increasingly on camera with questions designed to trip up AI avatars.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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