personifies

present tense third-person singular of personify

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Verb
  • The town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, embodies the sweater weather coziness everyone wants for fall.
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • No place better embodies that ethos than Southern California.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If a user expresses thoughts of suicide, Ebb is trained to pass the conversation to a crisis line, Glover says.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In his voiceover, McElwee frequently addresses Adrian and eulogizes his memory, but also expresses self-critical ruminations about his part in his son’s death, how his filmmaking may have contributed to his shaky self-image and the growing distance between them.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Personifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personifies. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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