martyr
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Lim believes the judge will hand down a life sentence, though, so as to "avoid making Yoon a martyr".
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
She was a martyr, someone who died for her beliefs.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
He’s an unhappy but willing martyr whose heart is slowly breaking the entire time.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
But her near mythical life—a young woman floating from the heavens to save fellow Jews—made her an enduring martyr for the young Zionists who founded Israel and for their descendants who would protect it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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