notability
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However, not everyone is pleased by the new development, notability retired RAF engineer Steve McGranaghan, who lives opposite the units.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
The 27 Club members who ranked in the top 1% of notability were 170% more notable than they would have been if they had died at a different age, Dunivin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024
Regardless, it’s clear these singers encountered something profound — a reality better than the riches, stardom and notability they had come to know.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
So far, general notability has not stopped a few Wikipedia editors from trying to delete the articles for lesser-known highways like West Virginia Route 891.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2023
For one thing, that Lincoln should be the specimen of psychology commanding any student's choice is suggested by Lincoln's notability.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
To visit the New York showroom is to court the possibility of rubbing shoulders with many notabilities of rank and fashion .
From Time Magazine Archive
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The leading notabilities of the place had booked up all the stalls at more than twice the usual prices.
From Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
The house was crowded, and many notabilities were present.
From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne
Josephine had a dinner in the evening—Cardinal Mathieu, the Austrian Ambassador to the Vatican and his wife, and other notabilities.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary Alsop King Waddington
The half-hour of waiting, preliminary to the first combat, is enlivened by the arrival of smart people and notabilities of the city, while the orchestra plays a selection of pieces.
From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley