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had personified

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Her ascension as the first Latina to become City Council president had personified the gains in political representation that Latinos have made in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 2022

The husband-and-wife couple had personified the Chinese economy’s broader rags-to-riches rise.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2022

Through all of the aching elbows and arms, Conforto had personified a semblance of hope in a lost season.

From New York Times Aug. 24, 2017

It is as if he had personified an image and transformed it into something seemingly absolute, into flesh and blood, but the actual absolute, the young peoples’ bodies, he has converted to images, pixels, digits.

From The New Yorker May 18, 2015

He had defended the Little Corporal, and in defending him had personified him.

From The Gay Cockade by Bailey, Temple