notoriety
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Controversies such as a 2002 autopsy performed in London -- on camera and before an audience —- further fuelled his notoriety.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
And it allowed college athletes to monetize their own notoriety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Fager had initially turned down the idea until he decided to pursue the story a year later, as Gaga had gained more notoriety.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Conditions there have prompted outcry from rights groups, and UN experts have condemned it as a site of "unparalleled notoriety."
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
While I enjoyed the notoriety, a cold anxiety was slowly growing in my gut.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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It will shine in its clear brightness when many clamorous notorieties of the day are quenched in night and silence.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
This is a season in which so many notorieties come through that I have dreaded being away.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
Beauties there were too, past, present, and some, coming; a fair share of the notorieties of fashion, and the last winner of the Derby, with—let me not forget him—a Quarterly Reviewer.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Now, she has added to her store of knowledge a great number of first impressions of London notorieties, which naturally throw her mind and Mrs. Stuart's more frequently into contact with each other.
From Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Hate is the high commander of so many armies that an inquiry into the origin of this passion is at least as needful as histories of other contemporary notorieties.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William
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