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icon

[ahy-kon] / ˈaɪ kɒn /
NOUN
symbol or representation
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NOUN
a holy image
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STRONGEST
WEAK
NOUN
admired person
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There was something unconsciously fitting about it all: the spectacle of one old media company offering a platform to an icon of another to say something unhinged, self-obsessed and divorced from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Handling a footballer who has become an icon was never going to be easy.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Trump also mentioned the famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., spoken to an audience at the National Mall, where the reflecting pool is located.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Her husband, Jonnie West, son of late NBA icon Jerry West, will be caddying for her.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

An icon painter from Crete was imported to render the iconography.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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