repute

Practically every working actor of some repute has offhandedly mentioned their interest in directing a film at one time or another.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

An opera company’s stature, and even an art capital’s cultural repute, can rise or fall depending upon its ability to mount a “Ring” cycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Oppenheimer’s repute as a theoretician was growing, but the rise in Lawrence’s professional stature was on a higher plane entirely.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I daresay that other great London physicians, whom the world reputes worldly, often do similar charities by stealth.

From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Yass, seh," Cornelius was tipsily remarking, "the journals o' the day reputes me to have absawb some paucity o' the school funds.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

For the Fathers were but men, and to speak the truth, their reputes and authorities did undervalue and suppress the books and writings of the sacred Apostles of Christ.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They shall see only silver and gold, houses and lands, reputes, supremacies, fames, and, as instrumental to these, the forms of logic and seemings of knowledge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

O spare Antinous; The world reputes thee valiant, do not soyle All thy past nobleness with such a cowardize.

From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont

She identified the man as Andrew Lopez, 26, a reputed Blythe Street member.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The night ended with the skies being lit up by the reputed largest fireworks display ever in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and his Spanish conquistadors had marched many miles through the desert in search of the reputed Seven Cities of Gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The president is nonetheless reputed to have brought a degree of stability back to the country scarred by civil war in the 1990s and to a region plagued by conflict.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

The wind was blowing harder than anything I’d ever experienced anywhere, even on the Patagonian Ice Cap, a place reputed to be the windiest on the planet.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Whereby apeareth, how he esteemed learning, and what felicity he putte therin, reputing al the worlde saue him selfe to be inferiour to Diogenes.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record

Ouer his kinred, hee held a warie and charie care, which bountifully was expressed, when occasion so required, reputing himselfe, not onely principall of the family, but a generall father to them all.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

The friar now perceiving that Ser Ciappelletto had nothing more to say, gave him absolution and his blessing, reputing him for a most holy man, fully believing that all that he had said was true.

From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg