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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Especially since the leadership of the European Union, primarily in the person of Germany and France, is taking a very aggressive position at the moment.
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David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
The motivation could rather be based in the person of the perpetrator himself.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Thus began my lifelong affiliation with dogs, which continues to this day in the person of Charley, paradoxically named not for me but for a previous Charley dog who showed up halfway down a lineage of canine hereditary succession.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
In what way? Speaking from within the confines of my tradition, God comes into the world in the person of Jesus Christ.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2025
During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The on-going food fight between Google and the Australian Government in the person of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy broke out again this week.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010
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.
—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
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David Brennan, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
The motivation could rather be based in the person of the perpetrator himself.
—Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Thus began my lifelong affiliation with dogs, which continues to this day in the person of Charley, paradoxically named not for me but for a previous Charley dog who showed up halfway down a lineage of canine hereditary succession.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2025
In what way? Speaking from within the confines of my tradition, God comes into the world in the person of Jesus Christ.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2025
During this time, the Nation of Islam’s theology included the idea that God came embodied in the person of Fard Muhammad, and that Elijah Muhammad was his prophet.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The on-going food fight between Google and the Australian Government in the person of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy broke out again this week.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010
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.
—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
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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 10 Mar. 2025.
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