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shero

American  
[shee-roh] / ˈʃi roʊ /

noun

  • sheroes
    plural
  1. a heroine.


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Then, beneath a statue of the civil rights shero Rosa Parks at the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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 Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Where are those heroes and sheroes whom we can claim as our own while everyone else worships them?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

But the lives of these sheroes are not being newly discovered in the 21st century.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2020

Obviously we all know that I've been a Harry Potter nut since I was 10 years old so I was very nervous to meet one of my sheroes for the first time.

From BBC ● May 23, 2018

Some called Freedom Riders heroes and sheroes, applauded their efforts and giving them standing ovations.

From Reuters ● May 25, 2011

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