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Recent Examples of heroine
While the heroine in this novel is fictional, readers will be drawn to this mystery set during WWII about codebreaking, and a Nazi threat on American soil.
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Literary Hub,
26 June 2026
The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
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Arthur Knight,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
All of which could have made her a comic-book heroine with a haunted underside, if the move had a haunted underside.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 June 2026
Larsen was great with kids, drawing one girl into her noir storytelling and making the kid the heroine, but then so were Young and Strange, dry observers and first-rate improvisors both.
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Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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Literary Hub,
26 June 2026
The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
—
Arthur Knight,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
All of which could have made her a comic-book heroine with a haunted underside, if the move had a haunted underside.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 June 2026
Larsen was great with kids, drawing one girl into her noir storytelling and making the kid the heroine, but then so were Young and Strange, dry observers and first-rate improvisors both.
—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroine
hero
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Soldier Valley Spirits' objective is to support military heroes and their families, Greenwood said.
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Shakespeare’s haughty Roman war hero, revered on the battlefield yet reviled by hungry plebeians, becomes the flash point in a young democracy tearing itself apart over power and sacrifice.
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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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