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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This frame, the folk hero sees one of his years-old projects rise to a special new peak.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
And at the heart of this fiction stood a character who seemed purpose-built for the moment — a few parts crypto whisperer, a few parts folk hero.
—David Segal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Culkin’s chief rival Norton, who plays the banjo and sings as the saintly folk hero Pete Seeger, has not summoned a win yet.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025
Just a day after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump kept one of his first promises made to the Bitcoin community by signing a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, a bitcoin folk hero and former Silk Road operator.
—Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
And at the heart of this fiction stood a character who seemed purpose-built for the moment — a few parts crypto whisperer, a few parts folk hero.
—David Segal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Culkin’s chief rival Norton, who plays the banjo and sings as the saintly folk hero Pete Seeger, has not summoned a win yet.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 26 Feb. 2025
Just a day after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump kept one of his first promises made to the Bitcoin community by signing a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, a bitcoin folk hero and former Silk Road operator.
—Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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“Folk hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20hero. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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