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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Starting pitchers Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow and closer/folk hero Roki Sasaki were nurtured through injuries during the regular season, and those resets probably helped each be at his best by the most important point of the season.
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
Movie follows the true story of the 1977 kidnapping that turned aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Governor Mills has become something of a resistance folk hero.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Jeff Manchester might have been a folk hero of the early 2000s, but his story resonates even more today, with wealth inequality and performative materialism higher than ever.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
Movie follows the true story of the 1977 kidnapping that turned aspiring Indianapolis entrepreneur Tony Kiritsis into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Governor Mills has become something of a resistance folk hero.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Jeff Manchester might have been a folk hero of the early 2000s, but his story resonates even more today, with wealth inequality and performative materialism higher than ever.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for folk hero
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“Folk hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20hero. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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