famed

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The city’s music, famed for rough-hewn virtuosity from blues to soul to techno, is the spring that waters “Adversity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2026

Like the Pardoner in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” or famed American showman P.T.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

Tony Harrison was a poet and playwright born in Leeds in 1937 who was famed for his controversial work.

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026

So when he heard on social media that Germans were congregating in Times Square, Altmeks readily pulled on a jersey of his hero Rudi Voller -- plus a wig mimicking the famed striker's blond curls.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

Pudge had been a cabin boy in his youth and, coincidentally, had served on a ship captained by the famed Admiral Percival Racine Ashton himself.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood