legend
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But Busch quickly cemented himself as a racing legend in his own right.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Club legend and fan Ian Wright, who helped start the party outside the Emirates on Tuesday night, was 40 when Arsenal last won the league, but for some supporters it was a new experience.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
The scene lost a founding legend in Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy not long ago.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Country music legend Sheryl Crow is offloading a small slice of her extravagant Nashville estate for $1.8 million—more than a decade after adding the 2.2-acre parcel to her longtime Tennessee compound.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
The former chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns, and a Wall Street legend, Greenberg still kept an office at the firm and acted as a broker for a handful of presumably special investors.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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