Heroes
Role models and heroes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Role models" instead a noun "Heroes".
Role models
Heroes and role models are semantically related. You can use "Heroes" instead a noun phrase "Role models".
Both terms in one sentence
- They believed that since the God of the Bible was evil, everyone who opposed him must be good, so they took up Cain, Pharaoh, the people of Sodom and Gomorrha ... basically every villain in the Old Testament ... as their heroes and role models.
Source: Useful Notes / Gnosticism - All of her detective heroes as a kid were male, and all of her co-workers are male, so she viewed those as role models, and aspired to be just like them, unfortunately causing her to mistakenly believe she had to make herself actually pass as a male to be taken seriously.
Source: Transsexual - Tamao Mitsurugi is their version of Sakura, complete with the same backstory: both first saw their heroes on television, are primarily self-taught by emulating their role models' fighting style, and seek to be trained by them.
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