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And long, quasi-personal feature stories about the intersection of sports and societal issues are very much the exception to the Athletic’s content, not the rule.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2018

To the archaic man all the obtrusive and obviously consequential objects and facts in his environment have a quasi-personal individuality.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

Its chief characteristic was that the will which was at first conceived to be within, or identical with, the object, was separated from the object and accorded a personal, or quasi-personal existence.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward

It is now leisure performed for the quasi-personal corporate household, instead of, as formerly, for the proprietary head of the household.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein