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repute

[ri-pyoot] / rɪˈpjut /






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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

According to the lawsuit, Brightline says Virgin “ceased to constitute a brand of international high repute, largely because of matters related to the pandemic.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

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

Allen's new book is published by Skyhorse, which has a reputation for giving a platform to writers of ill repute.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2022

The island fortress of House Targaryen had a sinister repute.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

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

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

“So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

At Le Beccherie, the dessert’s reputed birthplace, chef Manuel Gobbo explains how hard it is for a local to make the perfect version because “everyone has a memory of how their mother made tiramisu.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Although my father could neither read nor write, he was reputed to be an excellent orator who captivated his audiences by entertaining them as well as teaching them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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




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