valiance

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Recent Examples of valiance But Morgan’s valiance goes even further. Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 10 Mar. 2021 From the moment she was born — two months premature with a heart murmur — to her final few breaths, Virginia Castillo demonstrated valiance. AZCentral.com, 11 Mar. 2021 It’s about the need for a kind of action movie valiance that, by 1971, is dead in a way and never entirely returns. Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020 There’s always a debate for reason versus passion, for valiance versus depravity, Knox argues. Alex Kuczynski, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020 Put anyone else on the UFC roster in Covington’s shoes, and his valiance in a losing effort would be lauded. Dave Doyle, MMA Junkie, 15 Dec. 2019 But Herrera’s valiance and skills as one of the Mexican Revolution’s most successful soldaderas are an example of the bravery and sacrifices women during this time made to change the history of Mexico’s politics — and should not be forgotten. Teen Vogue, 1 Apr. 2019 The same was true, with opposite partisan valiance, of Democrats who supported Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy. Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valiance
Noun
  • Few actors make self-torture feel like a kind of heroism.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Navy plans to name a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer after Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, a former Camp Pendleton Marine who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for an act of heroism during vicious fighting in Afghanistan nearly 15 years ago.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His reactions, his resilience, hunger, ambition and courage impressed amid the acrimony of defeat after defeat.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Your skills, your experience, and your courage have never been more essential.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Trump also highlighted the stories of valor of other Purple Heart recipients, including Army Spc. Kevin Jensen whose Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008.
    MEG KINNARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2025
  • More than 80 years after he was killed in action during World War II, current and former members of Congress, along with veterans and civil rights groups, are still seeking to recognize him with the highest award for valor during combat.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Queen Elizabeth later awarded Beaton the George's Cross, Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry, for his role in saving her daughter’s life, and bestowed honors on Callender, as well as the other policemen and onlookers who intervened.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Behind her dark wardrobe and dour demeanor lies benevolence and bravery.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
  • These lessons were often one-sided, focusing on the bravery and hardship of the colonizers.
    Shilo Kino August 4, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And both the book and the film offered historically nonsensical versions of the Klan as an honorable and chivalrous group fighting for social justice and the virtue of white womanhood.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That might sound sadistic; indeed, sadism is something of a Hitchcockian virtue.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Roca’s maneuvers have both a theatrical elegance and a fearsome daring; his bravado is refined by his bravery, his defiant gaze challenging not just the bull but death itself.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
  • The plane was at least five thousand pounds over its normal gross weight, but Earhart had coaxed the Electra into the air with her usual casual daring.
    Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • My father had been a leading Mountaineer and would still maintain the general superiority in skill and hardihood of the Above Boys (his own faction) over the Below Boys (so were they called), of which party his contemporary had been a chieftain.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • There is little question that Reagan, for all his physical hardihood and strength of will, was no longer up to the task of serving a third term beginning in 1989.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020

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

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