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Recent Examples of idol
But an alliance forged out of shared perseverance was shattered at the merge when Q moved against Tiffany and told others about her immunity idol.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, the Survivor 50 Challenge, a nationwide idol hunt which began in late January, also wraps up this week.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Chuck Berry was writing his songs but a lot of the other teenage idols weren’t writing their music.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
And then double gold medalist Chloe Kim, her idol, her mentor, stepped in.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Feb. 2026
Meanwhile, the Survivor 50 Challenge, a nationwide idol hunt which began in late January, also wraps up this week.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Chuck Berry was writing his songs but a lot of the other teenage idols weren’t writing their music.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
And then double gold medalist Chloe Kim, her idol, her mentor, stepped in.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for idol
hero
Noun
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Hume became one of modern atheism’s great intellectual heroes by rejecting this idea.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Above one entryway, a sword is lodged in the stone, said to have found its place there in the eighth century after being thrown more than 100 miles by Roland, the hero of the medieval chanson that bears his name.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Idol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idol. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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