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Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

Times Festival of Books, Amanda Knox spoke about her connection with Monica Lewinsky and ‘the sisterhood of ill repute.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

According to the lawsuit, Brightline says Virgin “ceased to constitute a brand of international high repute, largely because of matters related to the pandemic.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Hosteen was a bull, slow to anger but implacable once roused, and by repute the fiercest fighter of Lord Walder’s get.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Nobody reputes him to steal, an' I don't say he do.

From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.

From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William

O spare Antinous; The world reputes thee valiant, do not soyle All thy past nobleness with such a cowardize.

From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis

For the Fathers were but men, and to speak the truth, their reputes and authorities did undervalue and suppress the books and writings of the sacred Apostles of Christ.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I daresay that other great London physicians, whom the world reputes worldly, often do similar charities by stealth.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Last year, the country’s security service said it had “effectively disabled” a Russian submarine with an underwater drone—a reputed first in warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The night ended with the skies being lit up by the reputed largest fireworks display ever in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Besides having foiled some 600 assassination attempts against late leader Fidel Castro, Cuba was reputed for its ability to infiltrate foreign intelligence services and recruit high-ranking informants, particularly Americans.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

The photo of a young El Mencho that flashed on the screen is among the only public images of the reputed kingpin, who is believed to be 58.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

The wind was blowing harder than anything I’d ever experienced anywhere, even on the Patagonian Ice Cap, a place reputed to be the windiest on the planet.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Whereby apeareth, how he esteemed learning, and what felicity he putte therin, reputing al the worlde saue him selfe to be inferiour to Diogenes.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Record, Robert

Ouer his kinred, hee held a warie and charie care, which bountifully was expressed, when occasion so required, reputing himselfe, not onely principall of the family, but a generall father to them all.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

The friar now perceiving that Ser Ciappelletto had nothing more to say, gave him absolution and his blessing, reputing him for a most holy man, fully believing that all that he had said was true.

From The Decameron, Volume I by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)