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Recent Examples of heroine
In the 1930s, this brave and outcasted heroine works to deliver books as a Packhorse librarian to secluded communities across the rough and rugged land.
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Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
The movie is happy to have Linda commit acts of brutality to preserve her place on top, but what is true equality if not allowing your anti-heroine to be in all ways just as monstrously self-interested as the men?
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Teela Designed with collector-level detail, this movie-accurate figure captures the heroine’s iconic armor, weapons, and the likeness of actress Camila Mendes.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Her namesake Yael was a biblical heroine who’s depicted in one of the many beautiful murals at the restaurant by Ilana Engel.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
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Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
The movie is happy to have Linda commit acts of brutality to preserve her place on top, but what is true equality if not allowing your anti-heroine to be in all ways just as monstrously self-interested as the men?
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
Teela Designed with collector-level detail, this movie-accurate figure captures the heroine’s iconic armor, weapons, and the likeness of actress Camila Mendes.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
Her namesake Yael was a biblical heroine who’s depicted in one of the many beautiful murals at the restaurant by Ilana Engel.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heroine
hero
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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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“Heroine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroine. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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