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There was something unconsciously fitting about it all: the spectacle of one old media company offering a platform to an icon of another to say something unhinged, self-obsessed and divorced from reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Though Wiener had been clear for years that he planned such a run when Pelosi stepped down, Pelosi is an icon in the city, beloved by constituents and uncontested as queen of the old guard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Handling a footballer who has become an icon was never going to be easy.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Trump also mentioned the famous 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech by civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., spoken to an audience at the National Mall, where the reflecting pool is located.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Then I remembered how she’d said I was like Andy Warhol, a cultural icon.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd