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notorious

[noh-tawr-ee-uhs, nuh-] / noʊˈtɔr i əs, nə- /


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First, the personal saving rate is notorious for being revised up because the government tends to undercount incomes in real time...

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

California — and particularly Los Angeles County — are notorious for slow election counts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Alfonsi had produced a segment on Venezuelans sent to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

In a notorious 2015 speech, Kovalchuk warned that the West was moving toward the creation of “servant humans”—controllable people with limited self-awareness and manipulated reproduction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

She intended to leave the notorious medium, Maggie Fox, behind, and become the respectable wife of a world-famous Arctic explorer, Mrs. Elisha Kent Kane.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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