in the person of
idiom
formal
—used to say that someone is the person who does something, provides something, etc.
Relief during the blackout arrived in the person of my brother, who brought flashlights and candles.
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His villainous and murderous legacy, however, was alive and well in the person of Henry Kissinger, whose malign and cynical influence on American foreign policy never really ebbed after Nixon left office.
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Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Cooley faced a challenge from the right in the person of John Eastman, the former Chapman University law school dean who went on to play a key role in Trump’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 election.
—Dan Morain, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
Over the past 20 years, a fashion for aggrieved and confrontational behavior has migrated out of reality television into the wider entertainment and business worlds, and also into politics, in the person of Donald Trump.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
The actors had a formidable fighter in their corner in the person of SAG president Ronald Reagan, the former Warner Bros. star who had downsized into television and, since 1953, had served as host of CBS’ anthology series General Electric Theater.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
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Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Cooley faced a challenge from the right in the person of John Eastman, the former Chapman University law school dean who went on to play a key role in Trump’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 election.
—Dan Morain, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2024
Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush.
—John Russell, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
Over the past 20 years, a fashion for aggrieved and confrontational behavior has migrated out of reality television into the wider entertainment and business worlds, and also into politics, in the person of Donald Trump.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
The actors had a formidable fighter in their corner in the person of SAG president Ronald Reagan, the former Warner Bros. star who had downsized into television and, since 1953, had served as host of CBS’ anthology series General Electric Theater.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2023
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“In the person of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20person%20of. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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