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repute

[ri-pyoot] / rɪˈpjut /






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"But now, even an editor of repute and an acclaimed journalist like R Rajagopal has been denied his right to vote," he wrote on X.

From BBC Jun. 29, 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

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

She knew that London was a large, bustling, and confusing city, and that one wrong turn might send them wandering down dark cobblestone streets that dead-ended at smelly slaughterhouses and riverfront establishments of ill repute.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

It includes brigades belonging to Iran-backed groups reputed for acting unilaterally.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 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

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

The photo of a young El Mencho that flashed on the screen is among the only public images of the reputed kingpin, who is believed to be 58.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 2, 2025

She was reputed to be able to understand the serpent, which offered her shavings from its horn as the core of the first ever American-made wand.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

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

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




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