notoriety
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An incident in Oklahoma in 2014 gained particular notoriety.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
He senses the world changing in real time and doesn’t want to get left behind, lest his reporting and notoriety succumb to oblivion.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The duo gained further notoriety with hits “Can’t Hold Us” and same-sex marriage anthem “Same Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
That also led, this week, to an unveiling of what the younger Biden is really selling: a cryptocurrency token, themed around the device that brought him such notoriety.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
There was another benefit to notoriety: A well-publicized lawsuit would help Anthony reclaim her position of leadership within the women’s movement.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Few of our notorieties could be trusted to think out any economic or social problem thoroughly and efficiently.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
And perhaps the author of the Potiphar Papers is in his way quite as characteristic of New York as any of the more self-seeking notorieties who din into our ears the catalogue of their merits.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
But evidently success in these cases was due to the exceptional and fortunate fact that the fixed notorieties of history were combined with a strange and mysterious geography.
From The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie
Insufferable to him were all notorieties and celebrities: where he could not outshine, he fled.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
One met beauty as well as brains; wealth as well as wit; and quite as many colourless nonentities as notorieties of every hue.
From My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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