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Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for war crimes, has long been seen within the Balkan country as a guerilla hero and symbol of its bloody independence struggle.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

It was like a professional wrestling rivalry in which everyone cheers for either the hero or the heel, only there was no pretense to this one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Ned Ludd was the fabled hero of the early-19th-century Luddites, who smashed stocking frames—knitting machines for socks—and burned factories to protest job-destroying technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Godwin would like his father to be remembered as the "hero that he was".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The butchery continued into 1864, as Abraham Lincoln was reelected after securing the helpful endorsement of abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

"Runner," an action comedy led by Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, debuted in fourth place, with the heroes fighting a cartel to get a sick young girl a lifesaving organ transplant.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

There’s no movie star to take charge, and Greengrass doesn’t inflate the passengers into larger-than-life heroes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The charms of those “Mystery!” chestnuts resided largely in heroes who were, if not rigid, then regularly, reliably eccentric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“I was using Riefenstahl to point out, or so I thought, that these heroes and heroines were straight out of Nazi propaganda,” Verhoeven told The Guardian in 2018.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

American kids began reading about new comic book heroes called the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

To mix it up, leftovers can easily be made into meatball heros.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021

I’m sure the jobless, teachers, medical heros and first responders can sleep well tonight knowing these two gentlemen can survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020

It is completely self-serving for the author to portray himself or herself, along with fellow resistors, as heros.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

Shaw posted a photo to Twitter of himself and student activist Emma González with the caption, “I met one of my heros today.”

From Washington Post ● May 14, 2018

O! captain, captain, heros are but men, men but flesh, and flesh is but weakness; therefore, let us briefly put on a Parthian valor, and strive to conquer by a flight!

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter