martyr

When CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked whether broadcasting Hasan’s execution could encourage radicalization by turning him into a martyr, Mullin offered a blunt response: “No one has to watch it.”

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

As the nation abandoned Reconstruction, a generation of politicians and historians recast Johnson as a martyr to congressional tyranny.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

In a normal rom-com, this is where Jack would exit stage left as the martyr who nudged Wendy toward her true soulmate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

Here I’d been acting like a martyr all these weeks.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Individual members prosecuted were seen by themselves and the faithful as martyrs for the cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

"We came to mourn our martyrs, children, women and the elderly," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of some of the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement, all of whom were devastated by the court’s Callais ruling.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“We call them our martyrs and our heroes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Her mother had nine children, all at the same time, four sets of twins and Wilgefortis the odd one, all winding up martyrs for the faith.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Did Jutta’s death undermine her causes or, in the way of martyred saints, give them immortality?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Their uncles married them off very young. Do you know why? Because their father and mother were martyred, and their uncles wanted to get rid of the responsibility and expenses," the woman said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In doing so, he managed to breach the walls of the city electronically and turn his invisible eye into the world’s gaze on the martyred city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The martyred Monica has literally been transfigured into a saint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

She whispered their names: Petyr, Marya, Anastasia, Vladimir, Lizabeta, Sankta Alina, martyred before she could turn eighteen.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

“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