personify
verb (used with object)
to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
have personified
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present perfectof personify.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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That belief, however imperfectly we might have personified it, rallied much of the world to our cause and inspired ripples of rebellion throughout the Soviet bloc and elsewhere.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
Few CEOs have personified their companies the way Elon Musk does with Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring Company.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2018
Few have personified these qualities as enthrallingly, disconcertingly and movingly as Frankie “The Answer” Edgar.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
Few players, if any, have personified determination like Elkjaer.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2012
The leaders of mankind have not been of the gentle Epicurean type; they have personified ideas; they have sometimes also been the victims of them.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
