hero
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At first he led a life of luxury, pampered by the military in Serbia where some to this day see him as a hero.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Although the film was Tom Cruise’s earliest foray into action-adventure, emerging before 1986’s “Top Gun” buried its cultural legacy, any fresh Hollywood face could have played Scott’s fairy-tale hero.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
It all prompted a kind of deeply existential question: If this is how we now treat a onetime pandemic hero, what will happen the next time we face a similar public health crisis?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Harington, popular for portraying reluctant hero Jon Snow in the TV adaptation of George R.R.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
In the early part of 1871, former war hero, now President Ulysses S. Grant, continued the process of Reconstruction.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The heroes for the Dodgers on Sunday needed no introduction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Farmers have been called heroes for creating firebreaks to save more houses from destruction as flames swept across the West Midlands last week.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Green Lanterns are intergalactic heroes who use a special ring to harness their imagination and willpower to manifest objects, manipulate energy and fly, as we see Jordan do, to Stewart’s chagrin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Also, not all heroes neatly fit into the Chosen vs.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Surely that was possible, no matter what the legends said about tragic heroes.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
I love a side-dish-main-dish hybrid, and grain- and veggie-based one-dish recipes are Thanksgiving heros.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
“Your life will be a story. It will be your story, with its highs and lows, its heros and villains, its forks in the road that mean everything.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023
To mix it up, leftovers can easily be made into meatball heros.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
I’m sure the jobless, teachers, medical heros and first responders can sleep well tonight knowing these two gentlemen can survive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2020
The name of the locality itself was derived from this "heros eponymos."
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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