Thesaurus results for HEROES

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 Nearly 30 years after the murder of the Brothers to the Rescue heroes, justice is finally moving forward. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 The battle between heroes and villains is back in a fifth installment of Disney‘s wildly successful Descendants franchise. — Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026 More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of the Norwegian capital Oslo on Monday to give their soccer team a heroes’ welcome, turning the heartbreak of their World Cup exit into a massive national celebration. — Reuters, NBC news, 14 July 2026 The parallels of this team’s performances with those of the national heroes of 2010 are uncanny, except there’s just a tad more to them. — Patrick Sung Cuadrado, CNN Money, 14 July 2026 Spain's biggest heroes so far have been Pau Cubarsi, Aymeric Laporte, and Mikel Merino. — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026 Neill played dashing heroes, sinister villains (see The Piano), authority figures, famous figures, and father figures. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026 The World Cup was played in the United States and two USA players from Westlake High, Cobi Jones and Eric Wynalda, helped become hometown soccer heroes. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026 And don’t forget that hoarders are the quiet heroes of society. — Shivali H. Patra, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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The general path is for idols to hunker down and compromise in groups to debut and make an identity, before striking out on their own.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
For a place of worship the temple was plain, with a long hallway of overlapping purple carpet and idols carved crudely from blush-colored marble.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 30 June 2026

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That was good enough for the system’s main purpose of helping US submarines calculate their own locations as a foundation for making the necessary missile launch calculations to strike their targets.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026
Firing uncrewed, expendable vessels from submarines and ships can boost flexibility, reduce risks to personnel, and support missions and other maritime defense tasks.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026

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The Queens ballpark leans on New York icons like Shake Shack burgers and pastrami sandwiches, along with soft pretzels and classic New York-style hot dogs.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
The Los Angeles space traces its Hollywood roots back to to 1913, with icons like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks working on projects at the Occidental location.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026

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There’s a house on the property where Francis Ford Coppola filmed Vito Corleone avenging his mother’s death in The Godfather Part II, but Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were interested in a much older tale about Sicily—one of gods and mortals.

— Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 July 2026
Following the Trojan War, Odysseus struggles to return home to Ithaca, encountering mythological creatures such as Cyclopes, Sirens, and gods who interfere with his perilous voyage.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

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These athletic touches bring contemporary edge to mainstay classics.

— Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 20 July 2026
At the 44th annual Italian Family Festa, presented by the Italian American Heritage Foundation (IAHF), local chefs — both professional and festival-tested — will prepare Italian classics and other favorites.

— Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 20 July 2026

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