fame
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It is quite a journey for co-founder Morgan, whose early fame came aged 17 when he was kicked by Chelsea's Hazard during the side's game against Swansea City in 2013.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Its early claim to fame was its participation in a Series B funding round for Instagram in 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
She achieved international fame that decade with the release of her "Total Eclipse" mega-hit, which topped the charts in the United States and Britain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The newcomer was KD1, a 4½-year-old eagle who has since become a repeat visitor to the aerie that’s livestreamed around the clock, earning its inhabitants worldwide internet fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Though this sequence is the source of Fibonacci’s fame, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci had a much more important purpose than animal husbandry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Bulldozers broke ground earlier this month on the public lands that blend desert, river and mountain ecosystems and are home to the famed Santa Elena Canyon.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
As the network’s famed college basketball commentator Dick Vitale would say, “That’s awesome, baby!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 2024, Kushner and Kloss purchased the iconic midcentury modern home in Malibu known as the “Wave House,” designed by famed architect Harry Gesner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Perched on a hilltop, the original estate was built in 1953 by the famed architect Richard Neutra for his secretary, Dorothy Serulnic.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of “Natural and Revealed Religion,” successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
In the 1930s, drought and bad faming methods destroyed 100 million acres of farmland around Oklahoma and forced families to leave, many for California.
From Time ● Apr. 10, 2015
In Strype's edition, 1720, he says, concerning this gate, "Leaving out the fable thereof faming it to be builded by King Belin, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ."
From Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing fame
Academy Awards, List 5
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