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as in idol
a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion fans of the sports hero didn't care what the facts were—in their minds, he was innocent of all criminal charges

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as in submarine
a large sandwich on a long split roll shared a foot-long meatball hero with his friend

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Recent Examples of hero In American Primeval, Isaac Reed is a classic western hero and a classic Taylor Kitsch character. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 Jan. 2025 His villains include both Presidents Bush; his heroes stretch back to William McKinley but include Richard Nixon, who raised tariffs in response to low-cost manufacturing from Asia, and, Lighthizer insists, Ronald Reagan. Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025 Whatever darkness existed, meeting their football hero brought light into their lives. Ben Standig, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025 Marvel Rivals is crushing its first season launch with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players across console and PC, and players are getting to know Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman as its two new heroes, with The Thing and Human Torch coming in a month and a half or so. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for hero 
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  • Doug Gilmour, Marner’s idol, holds the record with 95 (1992-93).
    Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • One common misconception about Hinduism, according to Hindu devotees who spoke with the Miami Herald, is that Hindus worship idols instead of worshiping one God.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2025
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  • The first of the new submarines, built in China, was launched in April last year.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Israel would remain reliant on foreign imports for much of its key equipment, including the United States for combat aircraft such as the F-35 and Germany for submarines.
    ADAM TAYLOR THE WASHINGTON POST, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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  • What to Read 10 Best Books of 2024 100 Notable Books of 2024 Find Your Next Book 21st Century’s Best Books January Releases In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits.
    Sadie Stein, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Style icons like Jacqueline Kennedy wore her huge designer outsize glasses as personal fashion items.
    Margaret Maynard, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • The family film, co-starring Olivia Colman, Keegan-Michael Key and Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa, centers on the early days of Willy Wonka and takes place long before a poor boy named Charlie Bucket wins a golden ticket to tour the world-famous and heavily guarded chocolate factory.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Sports is play Growing up as a poor boy in the Italian neighborhood of The Hill in St. Louis, Yogi played street hockey with newspapers taped to his shins and hit bottle caps with a broomstick.
    Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
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  • In 2023, Larian Studios swept the video-game awards with Baldur’s Gate 3, a noticeably Wagnerian affair with rival gods, magic rings, enchanted swords, and dragons.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The Kumbh draws upon Hindu mythology and the legend of demons and gods fighting over a pitcher containing the elixir of immortality.
    Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025

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“Hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hero. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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