martyr
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The episode helped forge the persona she would cultivate for decades: part street fighter, part martyr - a perpetual insurgent even in power.
From BBC • May 5, 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
Colbert refused to see himself as a martyr and began his acceptance by letting a bit of the air out of the award, named after a blacklisted journalist.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2026
Archaeologists believe the site began as the burial place of Christian martyr St. Neophytos, said to have been killed by Roman soldiers on the shore of the lake in A.D.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Don José also came upon Doña Charito one late afternoon in the Prado as she was copying the garment folds on a Grünewald martyr.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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