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Hired from Boston, Chile native Matt Singer has personalized the menu with dishes including lightly torched mackerel crudo, splashed with ponzu sauce and garnished with Lilliputian onion rings, and housemade tagliatelle dressed with butter-poached squid.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022

“When he came back from Nam, it was as if they were the enemy, and Paul has personalized that kind of violation of himself. That was how I reconciled it within myself.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2020

Gabriel has personalized his room in lots of ways, including filling it with his drawings.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2020

Like Sargent, he gained prominence through a series of YouTube videos exposing the round-Earth hoax, although he has personalized the flat-Earth outlook by labelling it “Jeranism.”

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2018

Whatever that word meant to Crawford, whatever memories and hurts it called up, Lange has personalized it to such a degree that her whole face caves in at the sound.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2017