folk hero
noun
: a person who is greatly admired by many people of a particular kind or in a particular place
He has become a folk hero in his home state because of the work he has done to help poor children.
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For Mangione’s supporters, the perp walk seemed to cement his status as a modern-day folk hero.
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Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
Luigi Mangione — the man charged in the Dec. 4 shooting and killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare — was still a nameless, faceless gathering of pixels in grainy surveillance footage when a slice of the internet christened him a folk hero.
—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
The killing sparked an outpouring of stories about resentment toward health insurance companies in the U.S. with some viewing the shooter as a folk hero, while also shaking corporate America and leading some companies to reevaluate security protocols.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Many have come to view Mangione as a sort of folk hero—expressing their outrage and frustration with the U.S.'s private health insurance industry.
—Katherine Fung, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
Luigi Mangione — the man charged in the Dec. 4 shooting and killing of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare — was still a nameless, faceless gathering of pixels in grainy surveillance footage when a slice of the internet christened him a folk hero.
—Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
The killing sparked an outpouring of stories about resentment toward health insurance companies in the U.S. with some viewing the shooter as a folk hero, while also shaking corporate America and leading some companies to reevaluate security protocols.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Many have come to view Mangione as a sort of folk hero—expressing their outrage and frustration with the U.S.'s private health insurance industry.
—Katherine Fung, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Folk hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20hero. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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