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legends

NOUN
story of the past, often fictitious
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STRONGEST
non-fiction truth




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In addition to DJ sets and live performances, ’90s rap legends DJ Quik and Flesh-n-Bone will host an evening concert on the festival stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Long before RZA and the GZA became musical legends – when their friends called them Robert Diggs and Gary Grice – martial arts cinema was relegated to cinematic margins.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

Before he was an international sports mogul, he was Enos Stanley Kroenke from rural Missouri with sporting heritage scrawled right on his birth certificate—his namesakes were St. Louis Cardinals legends Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

It would not have been largely a goodbye to departing legends like Bernardo Silva, John Stones and Guardiola himself.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

They would soon now be going forward into lands wholly strange to them, and beyond all but the most vague and distant legends of the Shire, and in the gathering twilight they longed for home.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien



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