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martyr

noun as in sufferer

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noun as in sacrificing person

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Danielson became a martyr for the far-right, who used his murder to erase the statistical reality that there’s exponentially more right-wing violence than left-wing violence in the U.S.

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And why does the Acts of the Apostles end with the reader wondering what became of its two most important characters, when we know they were martyred?

"I'm not upset... I just want to know if my son is among them. If not, if they don't find my son among these martyrs, I will be shocked."

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"We call it a national holiday, that our detainees are being released despite the cost of the war, the martyrs, the injured, and the destruction in Gaza."

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"My only dream was to go to the north and be martyred," he says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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