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as in captions
an explanation or description accompanying a pictorial illustration
the legend in the science textbook indicated that the accompanying picture had been enlarged by 1000%
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as in myths
a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature
some ancient civilizations had legends about spirits that inhabited trees and rocks
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as in mythologies
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place
that story of how the world came to be has long been part of Native American legend
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Recent Examples of legends
Vote for the best Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more.
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Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
Rock and roll wasn’t really built to grow old, and most late-career albums from even the greatest legends get a pat on the shoulder at best and calls for retirement at worst.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
This is an extremely incomplete list of great actors—icons, legends, cult heroes, Oscar and Emmy winners—who have inhabited characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
Rock and roll wasn’t really built to grow old, and most late-career albums from even the greatest legends get a pat on the shoulder at best and calls for retirement at worst.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Ed has covered pop music for The Republic since 2007, reviewing festivals and concerts, interviewing legends, covering the local scene and more.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
This is an extremely incomplete list of great actors—icons, legends, cult heroes, Oscar and Emmy winners—who have inhabited characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legends
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Efforts to reform education in science and technology should focus on generating excitement and interest among young girls by debunking myths about these subjects and highlighting their relevance to real-world issues.Kath Mackay, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Frida’s life was marked by contradictions, struggles, affairs and myths.Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
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The mythologies of the moon are as varied as the cultures that create them.Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024
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Entire mythologies are woven around the transformative power of leaders, from Steve Jobs' ‘reality distortion field’ at Apple, to the (somewhat-tarnished) cold-fusion miracle of Jack Welch's constant profits at GE.Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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But the award placed the book at the center of a fierce debate about literary translations.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
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This can include virtual assistants, language translations, content generation and much more.Alok Kulkarni, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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First opened in 1970 as a product of the Chicano movement, the Denver school — now shuttered — taught its youth about Latino history and traditions.Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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The new regulations clarify rules and time lines and, most significantly, direct museums to defer to a tribal nation’s knowledge of its customs, traditions, and histories when making their repatriation decisions.Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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The introduction of the Argentinean heavily tipped the scales in Miami’s favor, with the superstar forward involved in the goal that gave the home side the lead.Sam Joseph, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
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While natural climate change typically occurs on very long-term scales, humans are changing Earth's climate on a scale of decades − a pace more rapid than anything that has occurred in the last roughly 500 million years, according to a recent study.Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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“Legends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legends. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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