conquering hero
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You’d probably have to remove a limb or two from Brad Pitt’s Sonny Hayes to make it look like anyone but Brad Pitt has a chance to be the conquering hero here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Fifty-seven years after escaping the Nostromo, Ripley is found by a salvage crew and returns to Earth a conquering hero.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
As Romney later wrote in his journal, the president was met with a standing ovation fit for a conquering hero, and then launched into some rambling remarks.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2024
And after his brush with an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania in mid-July, he arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee a day later as a conquering hero to his supporters.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
Caesar was a powerful man and conquering hero of the Roman Republic, but at the end of the day, he was merely a public official.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
