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Unlike most superhero costumes, this heroine's look doesn't require a cape!
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Emma Kershaw, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The plot of His Dark Materials is driven by the long-running conflict between Pullman’s heroine, a bold, lithely intelligent 11-year-old named Lyra, and the Magisterium, an authoritarian incarnation of Christianity.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Tessa Thompson stars as the willful heroine, married to a rather meek academic, George Tesman (Tom Bateman), who’s angling for an important university position.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
In Colombia, an 18-year-old visits her estranged mother — a former guerrilla turned bride-to-be — hoping to find a revolutionary heroine but instead encounters silence, regret and love unspoken.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
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Emma Kershaw, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
The plot of His Dark Materials is driven by the long-running conflict between Pullman’s heroine, a bold, lithely intelligent 11-year-old named Lyra, and the Magisterium, an authoritarian incarnation of Christianity.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Tessa Thompson stars as the willful heroine, married to a rather meek academic, George Tesman (Tom Bateman), who’s angling for an important university position.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
In Colombia, an 18-year-old visits her estranged mother — a former guerrilla turned bride-to-be — hoping to find a revolutionary heroine but instead encounters silence, regret and love unspoken.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroine
hero
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On Monday, he was posthumously named a national hero of Indonesia – prompting protests from human rights groups and victims who decried the award as whitewashing a repressive regime that left hundreds of thousands dead, according to historians.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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The myth of Revere, the individual hero, the consummate voice of warning rising up against the odds, has become ingrained in the American zeitgeist, twisting its way through social movements, pop songs and marketing campaigns for more than a century.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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