legend
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers -- dressed as Rubin lookalikes with sunglasses and long flowing white hair, as well as his signature wizard-esque beard -- performed for the industry legend.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
Watching Mitchell Johnson tear apart England in the 2013-14 Ashes inspired Beardman to take up cricket, while he has worked with Dennis Lillee, another Australian Ashes legend, since his teenage years.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Rather than make sense of that legend, Mr. McKie presents a series of unadjudicated yet contradictory accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
That same scribe confirmed that bands of chickens roving near the Hollywood Freeway were indeed real and not an urban legend in 2000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The legend of Peugeot affords us a good example.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
From admiring Lakers legends, Kessler can now be mentioned in the same breath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Intocable are just such legends, and they truly represent the best of both Texas and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Derek 'Rocky' Turner, Neil Fox MBE, Don Fox, Harold Poynton, Ken Rollin... all legends of the 1960s and an era when all the silverware found its way to WF1.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
"I think he is one of the great legends in tech and business," says Alex Karp, CEO of data-analytics specialist Palantir.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She’d never forget the stories about Oakwald Forest, legends of dark, terrible glens and deep, still pools, and caves full of light and heavenly singing.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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Academy Awards, List 5
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