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shero

American  
[shee-roh] / ˈʃi roʊ /

noun

plural

sheroes
  1. a heroine.


Example Sentences

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“Whenever I tell her she’s my ‘shero’ — Helen says: ‘What are you talking about? You’re my shero.’

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

The Canadian rowing legend and my personal shero, Silken Laumann, has been very public with her struggles with mental health and surviving emotional turmoil.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2019

Christine Jorgensen, who I never met, is sort of a shero to me simply because she opened the conversation.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2019

And then, we need to retrieve the fix-it shero status from Sandberg and all the other badass female COOs working in tech.

From The Verge • Nov. 29, 2018

Sure, a hero is a male shero," I told him; "you learn that in the third grade.

From Roy Blakeley by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

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