valorous
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The conciliatory narrative that emerged from 1876 painted veterans, North and South, as noble, valorous brothers.
From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026
Much of the event on Wednesday was focused on Anderson’s valorous sacrifice, and rightly so.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024
We’re a nation that so often sees suffering as valorous, preferring to evoke notions of “Blitz spirit” rather than addressing structural inequalities.
From Slate • Jan. 14, 2023
A decade later, an aide to Sen. Charles Schumer of New York discovered a previously unknown 1918 memorandum from Gen. John Pershing describing Johnson’s valorous performance in the field.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2022
President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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