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icon

[ahy-kon] / ˈaɪ kɒn /
NOUN
symbol or representation
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NOUN
a holy image
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STRONGEST
WEAK
NOUN
admired person
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Some in the crowd carried banners with supportive slogans while others wore specially made hats bearing pictures of the referee, who has quickly become an icon in his homeland.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

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

Since then, he has gone from a young backup to an absolute icon for El Tri on the World Cup stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Her discretion and immaculate appearance also made Bernadette Chirac into something of an icon herself.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

As far as I’m concerned, if Andy Warhol was like me, then one day I’d be a cultural icon too.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd




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