The word "icons" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to symbols or images that represent something, often in a digital context.
Example: "The app features several icons that help users navigate its various functions."
Alternatives: "symbols" or "emblems".
From the transformation of much loved icons of the community – Middlesbrough FC will soon be powered by wind – to other invisible but no less important changes, such as Bath converting its streetlights to highly efficient LEDs.
The 1985 Bears were bona fide pop cultural icons – punky QB Jim McMahon would join the show later that season ahead of Super Bowl while Walter Payton and Mike Ditka also made appearances – yet none came with the fanfare of Chicago's 335lb defensive tackle and occasional short-yardage runner.
Dr Denver D'Rozario, who has written several academic papers on the post-mortem life of dead celebrities on screen, coined the term 'Delebs' to describe the digitally resurrected icons and said the practice still remained a moral minefield.
We all want our icons in the desert, but let's face it, your construction workers will probably do a better job if they're not living in squalor, 10 men to a room, trapped in labour camps with their passports confiscated, working for a year just to pay back their recruitment fees.
"We were there as one of those tile icons.
Over the last three days, the Twitter account @Cooledmiliband has posted a series of photos where Miliband's face has been pasted on to icons of masculinity.
Burberry's finance chief, Carol Fairweather, said: "We've got this absolute focus on our heritage icons, there is a lot more to come from the scarves and poncho story as we move forward this year".
In stark contrast to my teenage Africa-denial, a significant number of international cultural icons are now African.
This seems to be about white opposition to cultural icons being taken over by ethnic minorities and "liberal-thinking".
Others have been inspired by cultural icons to bring like-minded students together.
A court in Almaty has ordered an advertising agency to pay damages for designing a controversial poster showing two 19th-century cultural icons kissing.
