person of note
Example Sentences
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It’s so rare anymore that a person of note arrives in this city, jumps right in and, before he even does what he’s been hired to do, makes a little splash.
From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Even as a person of note, with a name, I would never go into a hospital by myself.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2022
But given that states can select any person of note from their state, surely there are many other men or women who don’t have the Confederacy on their résumés.
From Washington Times • Jun. 24, 2020
Stipulations include that the person of note must have been dead for at least 20 years to allow for a "retrospective examination" of their life's works.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2018
Such a one there lived in Philadelphia, a person of note, an elderly man, with a wise look and a very grave manner of speaking; his name was Samuel Mickle.
From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin
