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as in courageously
in a fearless manner
struggled heroically to raise three children on her meager salary
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as in honorably
in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals
doctors and nurses worked heroically through the night to keep the patient alive
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Recent Examples of heroically
Four Michigan police officers were injured Wednesday while heroically saving five people trapped inside a car that crashed into a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in Michigan.
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Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Delta Slim heroically sacrifices himself so the rest of the survivors can get away.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in his Bronx home.
—Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2026
First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
Kendricks heroically broke up a fourth-down pass to seal the 49ers’ wild-card win in his first 49ers’ start, making his encore even more enticing, whether his weak-side wingman is again Garret Wallow or regular-season starter Dee Winters.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
That’s especially if Niners star LB Fred Warner heroically returns from injury.
—Greg Cote
january 15, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
Efforts to calm tensions have been buoyed by the fact that the man who heroically tackled Akram, fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, is himself a Muslim father of two.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
The enormous machine weighed several tons, and stories circulated about how Kagan had borrowed a tractor trailer to heroically transport the behemoth from Michigan to New Jersey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
Delta Slim heroically sacrifices himself so the rest of the survivors can get away.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
Just weeks after heroically saving a neighbor’s choking 1-year-old girl, an NYPD officer was at it again, saving the life of a 2-year-old boy who had stopped breathing in his Bronx home.
—Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2026
First into his life comes Jessie involved in a shipwreck with her uncle, a past colleague of Mason’s, who drowns in a vicious storm and almost takes Jessie down with him before she is heroically rescued from near death by Mason, who brings her out of the drink and then back to life.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
Kendricks heroically broke up a fourth-down pass to seal the 49ers’ wild-card win in his first 49ers’ start, making his encore even more enticing, whether his weak-side wingman is again Garret Wallow or regular-season starter Dee Winters.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
That’s especially if Niners star LB Fred Warner heroically returns from injury.
—Greg Cote
january 15, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
Efforts to calm tensions have been buoyed by the fact that the man who heroically tackled Akram, fruit shop owner Ahmed al-Ahmed, is himself a Muslim father of two.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
The enormous machine weighed several tons, and stories circulated about how Kagan had borrowed a tractor trailer to heroically transport the behemoth from Michigan to New Jersey.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroically
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Inside Iran, people are openly and courageously chanting his name.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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Williams was given the military’s highest honor for courageously taking on seven Soviet MiG aircraft over Korea in 1952 and knocking four of them out of the sky in what is widely regarded as one of the longest and toughest aerial dogfights in the history of the Navy.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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She was honorably discharged from the Army in 2014, then obtained her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from John Jay College in New York in 2017, records show.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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As a result, thousands of veterans who honorably served our nation still struggle to access even basic preventative care or care programs offered through the federal VA.—
Rep. Jaime Foster,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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The two women bravely faced Gale in court Tuesday, recounting how their lives have changed.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The batter, however, bravely shakes it off and proceeds to first base.—
Michel A. Ibrahim,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Mar. 2026
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If the pair pull it off, the implications could be massive, revealing AI’s potential to convincingly resurrect and reinvent our cinematic history — a potential that before the tech had remained firmly theoretical.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Mar. 2026
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Much like older Soundboks speakers, the Mix still leans heavily into high volume, with an output of up to 121 dB, putting it firmly in the party speaker category.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Mar. 2026
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However Taparjan valiantly deconstructs her personality by examining her past and unearthing her demons and traumas.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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Braun and Johnson tried valiantly, though.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
19 Mar. 2026
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