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heroes

noun

plural of hero

as in idols

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

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Recent Examples of heroes Zero Company uses the epic backdrop of the prequels and the Clone Wars to tell an original trilogy-style story about a band of heroes that simply come together in the right place at the right time. — Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026 The artists of the Union became mythical heroes at meetings outside Palestine, as they were almost always denied travel by the occupation. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 However, in recent years, the state's increased its controlling grip on certain aspects of expression, especially in regards to political figures with the passage of law in 2018 that bans criticism of the nation's heroes. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 However, in recent years, the state’s increased its controlling grip on certain aspects of expression, especially in regards to political figures with the passage of law in 2018 that bans criticism of the nation’s heroes. — Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Three months after a CBS News Philadelphia investigation found a veteran banner program honoring local heroes didn't include any people of color, nothing's changed. — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 The lineup is truly insane and full of my heroes and friends. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026 Salvias are heroes of container gardens with spikes of bold color over lush foliage. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2026 In a sense, there are three heroes and villains, and there was never a question that [the women] were not expendable, whereas everyone else around them was, depending on how the story worked. — Max Gao, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

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Since then, she’s worked with some of her biggest idols in the culinary world, cooking alongside everyone from Jean-Georges Vongerichten to Masaharu Morimoto, Giada De Laurentiis, and Gordon Ramsay.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026
Katseye doesn’t seem to get in as much trouble as K-pop idols have in the past for swearing; a patina of unruliness has endeared the group to its followers.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

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Earlier this summer, after a bidding war, Canada opted to buy twelve new submarines from a German arms company rather than from a South Korean competitor.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Spin-outs include BAE Systems’ Rho-C, an ultrasound technology originally built for submarines now being used to support the oil and gas sector and nuclear power plants.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

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In years past, Farel and his team from Farel Salon & Spa have hosted tennis icons including Coco Gauff, Iga Świątek, Aryna Sabalenka, Naomi Osaka, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz, Patrick McEnroe, Chris Evert, Billie Jean King and more.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
Two beloved entertainment icons, born just three months apart in 1946, died at the same age on the same day.

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

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Check the leading management bestsellers and textbooks, including Gary Hamel’s Humanocracy, Eric Ries’s Incorruptible, Stephen Robbins and Mary Coulter’s Management and older classics like Michael Porter’s Competitive Strategy.

— Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
The brainchild of Albert Kanter, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, these comic-book versions of the classics sold over 100 million copies and were distributed by 25,000 school districts.

— Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026

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