repute
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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
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
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Nobody reputes him to steal, an' I don't say he do.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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
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
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
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
Last year, the country’s security service said it had “effectively disabled” a Russian submarine with an underwater drone—a reputed first in warfare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
Besides having foiled some 600 assassination attempts against late leader Fidel Castro, Cuba was reputed for its ability to infiltrate foreign intelligence services and recruit high-ranking informants, particularly Americans.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
They are reputed to be well versed in magical healing, divination, archery and astronomy.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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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
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
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
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