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idol

[ahyd-l] / ˈaɪd l /




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The sport is now deep into its next generation of champions and Woods hovers over all of it, both as an idol to today’s contenders and a heavyweight force behind the game.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its idol marketing business has performed much better than expected, the brokerage says, significantly lifting 2026-2028 earnings forecasts for the Thai company.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those songs will undoubtedly be scrutinised by fans, especially after Jungkook recently posted, and then deleted, a livestream video in which he shared his frustrations with life as a K-Pop idol.

From BBC

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

The phrase “idol factory” comes from John Calvin’s “Institutes of the Christian Religion.”

From The Wall Street Journal