heroine

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Recent Examples of heroine The fourth installment, Mad About the Boy, asks: but what happens to our heroine when Darcy dies? Grace Aldridge august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025 That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025 Many readers, though, have a hard time swallowing her heroine, Fanny Price. Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025 The heroine, Layla, has been to Paris before — on her honeymoon, no less! Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heroine
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hero
Noun
  • Davidson’s hero, Ionescu, obliterated the record books in Oregon and left an indelible legacy replete with awards.
    Devon Henderson, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The feisty Pembroke Pines grandmother emerged as a hero a year ago today when firefighter-paramedics rescued her three days after her Toyota Tercel plummeted off Interstate 595 into a sweltering bed of swampland brush.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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