heroic
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"I don't think what I did was heroic, you just do it."
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Frankly, the dorky version of Adam is more fun than the heroic He-Man, even with Knight hammering us every minute to laugh that he’s a total weakling.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
"Endless gratitude to the Secret Service for their immediate, heroic response. Political violence has to stop."
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
At the ceremony inaugurating the museum, Kim, who was accompanied by Russian officials, praised his troops’ “noble sacrifices and heroic military feats.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But if this was a story in the heroic age, they would give my great-grandfather a name, Jamshid, and a personality—ever-laughing Jamshid with a limp in the foot his father crushed with a plow.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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