renown

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"If ski resorts in Japan had stayed the way they used to be, they would never have gained such worldwide renown," said Hiroshi Hasegawa, director of a local real estate agency.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

He won renown as one of the key figures in the new wave of Iranian cinema.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

He cultivated renown as a Wall Street wizard yet projected an air of uncaring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Starting the year after Lawrence met him, his renown as a theorist would land him appointments first at the University of Chicago and then at Yale University’s Sloane Physics Laboratory as director.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik