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Recent Examples of heroine
Slater’s bright, smiling heroine reflected the Christopher Reeve films, while Calle’s was an alternate universe version of Cavill’s dour Superman, and Benoist’s was a wholesome, Clark Kent-like reporter.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 July 2025
The film’s superstitious heroine, AP (Sriram), is having her fortune told by a psychic in flowing robes and a matching huge headpiece (a delicious cameo from Big Freedia), who diagnoses the curse and the $1,000 solution to reverse it.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 11 July 2025
By the end, its heroine has undergone a radical transformation and asserted her independence.
—Claire Jarvis, New Yorker, 8 July 2025
The red-robed heroines of Gilead walked in unison down a street after a night of mayhem with sirens blaring in the background.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 July 2025
The film’s superstitious heroine, AP (Sriram), is having her fortune told by a psychic in flowing robes and a matching huge headpiece (a delicious cameo from Big Freedia), who diagnoses the curse and the $1,000 solution to reverse it.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 11 July 2025
By the end, its heroine has undergone a radical transformation and asserted her independence.
—Claire Jarvis, New Yorker, 8 July 2025
The red-robed heroines of Gilead walked in unison down a street after a night of mayhem with sirens blaring in the background.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroine
hero
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The scene exposes the mythic hero and the choking mortal as two sides of the same coin: the fantasy of striving as salvation, and the ugly truth of its price.—
Leslie Jamison,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Hesse serves as the film’s unsung cinematic hero, along with his protégé, filmmaker and producer Anita Afonu.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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