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Unlike a killer hiding in the woods, a guy who gets you in your dreams is literally impossible to hide from, and watching our plucky heroine Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) trying to resist sleep presents a new kind of awful torture.
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Who is your favorite fictional hero or heroine?
—New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
As Bella and Edward become closer, our young heroine not only romanticizes the vampire's ethereal good looks, but also the dominance and constant surveillance of his courtship.
—USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado first produced the Shaw comedy in 1982, starring company member Deborah Gilmour Smyth as the heroine Raina Petkoff.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Who is your favorite fictional hero or heroine?
—New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
As Bella and Edward become closer, our young heroine not only romanticizes the vampire's ethereal good looks, but also the dominance and constant surveillance of his courtship.
—USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado first produced the Shaw comedy in 1982, starring company member Deborah Gilmour Smyth as the heroine Raina Petkoff.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroine
hero
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Any trip back in time that begins as a quest for heroes or villains is fatally flawed from the start.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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And in the imperfect hero who is Carol Sturka, viewers get a role model who doesn’t let her own anger or grief stop her from trying to save the world.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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