patriot
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"He didn't want to, but he had do it. He was a patriot," Natalia explains, through her tears.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
"Regardless of what they say, to me, my son was a patriot, and that's what matters to me."
From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026
Almost overnight, the king replaced Parliament as the symbol and target of colonial grievance, and gaining independence under popular rule became the patriot aim.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026
As Eran Shalev, a professor of history at Haifa University, shows in “The Star-Spangled Republic,” Lemen was hardly the only patriot with his head in the clouds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
This African patriot had helped found the organization in 1912, and casting my vote near his grave site brought history full circle, for the mission he began eighty-two years before was about to be achieved.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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