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notoriety

[noh-tuh-rahy-i-tee] / ˌnoʊ təˈraɪ ɪ ti /


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For someone whose notoriety has twice become inseparable from who he’s married to, Pitt’s choice to play gruff loners feels noticeably calculated, keeping an arm’s distance between his work and the audience.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Debs gained notoriety in America because he “brandished the red banner with such zeal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

But that hasn’t stopped him from using his notoriety to sell merch and pump his $CHUD scamcoin while winking to his online flock.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Each of them was gaining notoriety for understanding how heavy technology use—multitasking—impacted the brain.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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 George William Russell

Insufferable to him were all notorieties and celebrities: where he could not outshine, he fled.

From Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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

Obviously they spent their lives in meeting notorieties on inbound steamers, and made naught of it.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

He seems to me abnormally lacking in personal ambition,—does not seem to care whether he is heard of or not,—has a sort of contempt for the little neighborhood notorieties which give most men pleasure.

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin


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