repute
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Times Festival of Books, Amanda Knox spoke about her connection with Monica Lewinsky and ‘the sisterhood of ill repute.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
Brightline argued that Virgin had “ceased to constitute a brand of international high repute, largely because of matters related to the pandemic.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 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
It was Travis, the ten-year-old, clutching one of his new litter of kittens, all of which he’d named after gunslingers, outlaws, and others of low repute.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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Nobody reputes him to steal, an' I don't say he do.
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
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 Beaumont, Francis
The deposit, reputed to be the largest in Africa, is one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's hidden treasures -- which are at the centre of a global race for critical minerals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 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
Norwich have been crying out for a quick winger who can deliver quality into the box, and in Papa Amadou Diallo they have a player reputed to be the quickest in the league.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
Now Field is a protected witness for federal prosecutors seeking to convict three of the Aryan Brotherhood’s reputed leaders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
This had happened only when Adam was reputed to have lost all of his money.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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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 Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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 Record, Robert
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 Carew, Richard
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