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celebrated case
noun as in cause célèbre
Example Sentences
In the most celebrated case, he took on the Walt Disney Company, which had challenged him on legislation prohibiting the teaching of gender and identity issues to young schoolchildren.
In 1976, Mr. Bailey lost an equally celebrated case in which a San Francisco jury rejected his claim that Patty Hearst, the newspaper fortune heiress, after being kidnapped by radical Symbionese Liberation Army members, was “brainwashed” into participating in an armed robbery of a local bank.
One celebrated case back in 2005 involved a series of 12 Danish political cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
The sentencing of former distillery worker Gilbert “Toby” Curtsinger on Friday means the celebrated case is close to winding down.
The sentencing of former distillery worker Gilbert “Toby” Curtsinger on Friday means the celebrated case is close to winding down.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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