hero
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It seems less hero worship than a reunion of old friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
But Antonelli's ascendancy this year has opened the door for Italy to embrace a new hero - even if he does drive for the direct competition.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
A folk hero in his home state of Hawaii, Sagapolutele is projected to be a first-round prospect in the 2028 NFL draft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Kenneth Branagh, the British actor whose career has been built on weighty roles such as Shakespeare's Henry V, is perhaps an unlikely action hero.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
When my beautiful lady hero was escaping from bad guys in Sands at Sunset, she disguised herself in old clothes and grease till she looked so ugly they didn’t notice her.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
"So many of the heroes in our own lives don't have that big swashbuckling moment," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The Abstract Expressionist painters are the new heroes in Greenwich Village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“The heroes, the poetics, the material culture, the everyday,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
More bluntly, for many outside the tech world, these companies will be birthed as the bad guys, a remarkable swing from the early 2010s when founders were venerated as cultural heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
As national heroes, cosmonauts were always in the public eye.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
I love a side-dish-main-dish hybrid, and grain- and veggie-based one-dish recipes are Thanksgiving heros.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
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
Not like some kind of muscular Jack Lemmon, but still, more accessible than other 'yuge' action heros.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
My word for it, we are the heros that do all the execution.
From The Battle of Hexham; or, Days of Old; a play in three acts by George Colman
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