martyr
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Her Elizabeth is neither martyr nor saint, just a woman who wants to live as she’s always lived for as long as she can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"My father gave his life for the country and he should be remembered as a martyr," Dorjai said, adding that his teammates who perished deserve the same title.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Actor and Tibetan activist Richard Gere headlined an hourslong Times Square rally on Saturday honoring Lobga where many wore T-shirts depicting him as a martyr surrounded by flames.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A local newspaper quoted his mother, Sadaf Monfared, as saying the boy told her he "would like to become a martyr".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Leave Minerva behind to be a martyr all by herself?
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
They are just a few of the most famous martyrs of the movement that gave birth to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Two women dressed in green and pink fur cradle each other’s heads, reimagining medieval depictions of cephalophores — Christian martyrs who carry their severed heads while continuing to preach or pray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Tertullian, an early Christian writer, taught that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
"For the blood of the martyrs, sing the national anthem with firmness and without hesitation," read one placard.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Officials worried that the women would become martyrs.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
"I am proud of him. He was martyred on the front lines. This is an honour for me," said the grieving father, who last saw his son six weeks ago.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
"Oh, my martyred child," he wailed, "oh my darling."
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Mohammad Mokhber, a former Iranian vice president, called the new supreme leader “the complete mirror of our martyred leader, Imam Khamenei.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Making a profile documentary about the martyred Tejano music icon, whose life and career have already been the subject of a popular film and a scripted TV series, must be a daunting task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
She evaded their questions masterfully, with a martyred air.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
“I think he wanted something on his résumé, some way of martyring himself, so he could say ‘They’re out to get me.’”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2023
Now they have jumped on the grievance train, martyring themselves for the cause:
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2021
January was before the makeshift hospitals, before the martyring of a whistle-blower doctor, before nearly 800 million people were placed under lockdown, before the virus started spreading in earnest beyond Chinese borders.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2020
David Cronenberg’s “The Dead Zone” makes a curse out of a gift, martyring a man who can see the future at the price of his life.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
She sits down next to me, crunching and martyring her way through the bowl of dry cereal, eyeing my plate the whole time.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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