noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dramatis personae
persona non grata
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
public
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Of course, there've been other, less welcome alterations to their public persona .
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They say Alexander is as down-to-earth and folksy as his public persona .
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Morrissey's retreat was probably due to a realisation that he couldn't control his own public persona .
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Self-deprecation is a calculated part of his public persona .
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In 1983 the whole party could blame the public persona of Mr Foot.
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It was part of the naturalness of his public persona .
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Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ?
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And what function do we accord, then, to Hitler's public persona in explaining the process which led to Auschwitz?
■ VERB
become
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But the fiction is that which denies the living creature which became the plaintiff a persona in the period prior to birth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/become/be declared persona non grata
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Green's on-screen persona is cute and innocent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he has failed to develop a mature political persona since he parachuted with fanfare into the national arena last autumn.
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Crude as Farley plays it, his endearing-blowfish persona is quite a piece of work.
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In the meantime, he has created a persona called the Fashion Director, who recommends good buys.
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Sally Fields' fighting-mom persona is dragged through the first stupid thriller of 1996.
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The change says a lot about the persona he was already being driven into.
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The whole world will communicate with you, and your computer persona will track your presence.
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When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.