folk hero
noun
: a person who is greatly admired by many people of a particular kind or in a particular place
He has become a folk hero in his home state because of the work he has done to help poor children.
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Elsa works at a nursing home her mom runs, but her days and nights are spent memorializing Franck, spray-painting F on statues around town, where her brother is a kind of local folk hero.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
But when Amir, as the youths gather in Tahrir Square, becomes a folk hero, his folk-y revolutionary guitar ballads drag the action to a halt.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
The folk hero will be a main character in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, ahead of that project hitting theaters at Christmas.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the future, the human physician may well be a worse diagnostician than a computer program, much as the folk hero John Henry was defeated by the steam drill, or the chess master Garry Kasparov was beaten by IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
But when Amir, as the youths gather in Tahrir Square, becomes a folk hero, his folk-y revolutionary guitar ballads drag the action to a halt.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2024
The folk hero will be a main character in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, ahead of that project hitting theaters at Christmas.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the future, the human physician may well be a worse diagnostician than a computer program, much as the folk hero John Henry was defeated by the steam drill, or the chess master Garry Kasparov was beaten by IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue.
—Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2018
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“Folk hero.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folk%20hero. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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