idol
Example Sentences
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The media and entertainment company’s idol marketing business is overtaking its TV and content businesses by revenue contribution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Arias, the Fresno councilman and a former farmworker himself, acknowledged that Chavez has “been an idol to us as a community, because he fought and advocated for ourselves and our parents who are farmworkers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Nearly 20,000 spectators in Bayamon, on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, a US territory, gave the Argentine idol a standing ovation when he finally entered the game.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Van Der Beek became a teen idol, a level of public spotlight he has said he wasn’t quite prepared for.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
She’d daydreamed about this moment forever, and that was how she greeted her idol?
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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