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icon

noun as in symbol or representation

noun as in a holy image

Strongest match

Weak match

noun as in admired person

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She also asked to stop being referred to as an icon.

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“I was paired against an absolute icon, got a nice chat, pictures, a signed sheet, and now a recap of my mistakes,” one of his opponents in Louisiana, Nahum Jose Vilamil, wrote on social media.

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And his daughter Anne, whose diary he had edited and published, had become an icon.

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Chung cuts a different figure than his father and grandfather, who are both icons in the Korean business community.

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That is more than American industrial icon General Motors, which sold around $47 billion worth of cars over the same period.

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