heroic
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"I don't think what I did was heroic, you just do it."
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
But he was a heroic figure to me as a teenager, very much in the same way that simultaneously, like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones were, or John Lennon was, or Allen Ginsberg was.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
"His actions were heroic and he undoubtedly saved lives today," Wahl said.
From Barron's • May 18, 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
The chivalrous puffin lost himself in imagining his heroic death, unaware that the great black-backed gull had descended from the sky.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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