in person

1. Also, in the flesh. In one's physical presence, as in He applied for the job in person, or I couldn't believe it, but there she was, in the flesh. The first expression dates from the mid-1500s. The variant, from the 1300s, was long used to allude to the bodily resurrection of Jesus, but later acquired its looser meaning. Charles Dickens has it in Our Mutual Friend (1865): “The minutes passing on, and no Mrs. W. in the flesh appearing.”

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Zion then pivoted to what Mr Long called a "hybrid model" where they would hold large online church services coupled with small offline meetings in person.

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Online pharmacies that deliver your medicine to your door can sometimes be the cheapest in-network option with your insurance, and they offer the convenience of not having to wait in line, in person.

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Instead, the opposite happened: as TED Talks spread around the world, so did interest in attending the conferences in person.

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One person was asked to provide photographic evidence, another was spoken to in person, while a third who had provided a DNA sample independently had their sequence compared to Madeleine's.

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“But they are nothing more than hopes as of now. We yearn to see him in person.”

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