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Hasan, who is paralyzed, had told military officials he hoped to become a martyr.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

As the nation abandoned Reconstruction, a generation of politicians and historians recast Johnson as a martyr to congressional tyranny.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

In a normal rom-com, this is where Jack would exit stage left as the martyr who nudged Wendy toward her true soulmate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

After he was shot in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996, he became immortalised as a kind of martyr for the lifestyle he helped make famous.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Her face grew set in its lines, but her eyes shone with the devotion of a martyr as she answered:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

"The verdict reflects the magnitude of the sacrifices we made, the sacrifices of the martyrs, the suffering and pain of the victims, the missing, and the detainees," she told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Last year, he welcomed Toutou to the presidential palace as part of a ceremony honouring families of the "martyrs".

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

They are just a few of the most famous martyrs of the movement that gave birth to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Two women dressed in green and pink fur cradle each other’s heads, reimagining medieval depictions of cephalophores — Christian martyrs who carry their severed heads while continuing to preach or pray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

He told her that he and his wife had adopted a black child and their neighbors looked at them as though they had chosen to become martyrs for a dubious cause.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Their uncles married them off very young. Do you know why? Because their father and mother were martyred, and their uncles wanted to get rid of the responsibility and expenses," the woman said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In doing so, he managed to breach the walls of the city electronically and turn his invisible eye into the world’s gaze on the martyred city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Mohammad Mokhber, a former Iranian vice president, called the new supreme leader “the complete mirror of our martyred leader, Imam Khamenei.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Iran's judiciary confirmed Sunday that the chief of the Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Pakpour, and another top security adviser, Ali Shamkhani, were also "martyred" in the strikes.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

She could only use patience and self-restraint poor tools when matched against the heartfelt mania of love to which the ancient race was martyred.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

If there is a way to avoid martyring the guy by giving him the “great honor” of being jailed for a few hours, that would be useful.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2024

“I think he wanted something on his résumé, some way of martyring himself, so he could say ‘They’re out to get me.’”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

David Cronenberg’s “The Dead Zone” makes a curse out of a gift, martyring a man who can see the future at the price of his life.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017

That, for me, was a very uncomfortable time,” he said, explaining that he had wanted to spare Van Gundy the scrutiny in season, and wound up martyring him instead.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2015

She sits down next to me, crunching and martyring her way through the bowl of dry cereal, eyeing my plate the whole time.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson