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legends

NOUN
story of the past, often fictitious
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STRONGEST
non-fiction truth




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Rollins, reflecting on his nearly seven-decade career in the 2016 interview with AFP, said he had perhaps been too brash with the legends around him.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Broadly similar to the iron-block boat anchors that powered ’60s-era Triumphs, MGs and other British legends, Mazda’s four-banger has an aluminum block; dual overhead cams with four valves per cylinder; and electronic fuel injection.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Long before the modern GPU, computer-science legends like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon — the namesake of Anthropic’s large language model — used chess to model human logic and cognition.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

They tell the story of the land, the people, the legends, the work, the life.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz



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