legendary
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She even called legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta to try to get her to retract her endorsement of Wiener.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
For the legendary value investor, the island wasn’t a status symbol; it was an undervalued asset.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The others are 6-7 and 6-5, so imagine the little brother in the front yard doing the Oklahoma drill, a legendary one-on-one football drill from years ago that tested toughness via collisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
"They'd really smashed it live the year before... And then of course it became legendary for various rather sadder reasons."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
During the war she’d earned legendary status in the Soviet spy service by sneaking past FBI agents with atomic bomb plans hidden in a tissue box.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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It is possible to take on easy ones on your own, but for legendaries, it’s best to find some friends.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2018
The game has gotten slow for me now that I have completed my Pokédex, except of course for the legendaries and region-exclusive Pokémon.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2016
But who knows, maybe if Niantic releases the legendaries and 2nd generation Pokémon I might risk it.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2016
Outside of these two major themes, the game is littered with other awesome new cards, especially a fleet of legendaries with amazing and occasionally hilarious new abilities.
From Forbes ● Dec. 12, 2014
So the poet freely indulged his genius during these Aldgate days, turning and returning the leaves of his French and Italian legendaries, and evoking such ghosts as he pleased to live again on earth.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
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