legend
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Argentine legend Lionel Messi has become the new owner of Catalan club Cornella.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Jerry West’s legend was so well established when he retired from the Los Angeles Lakers in 1974 that he’d already been the inspiration for the NBA’s logo.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Adele Bertei has been writing about her life since 2013’s “Peter and the Wolves,” about her friendship with Cleveland punk legend Peter Laughner and their early years in the Cleveland punk scene.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
A new trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona begins Tuesday a year after a scandal involving a judge caused the first trial to collapse.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
While we like to think of Washington as the champion of liberty and the honest little boy of the cherry tree legend who couldn’t tell a lie, the president deliberately dodged the law in Philadelphia.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Vocabulary lists containing legend
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Reading: Informational - Middle School
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Academy Awards, List 5
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