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fame

[faym] / feɪm /


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As Haaland found out, fame hits differently in the States.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He is also the face of a growing media empire, which is what a comedian must become to hold sway in the upper echelons of new media fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The old guard of comedy is changing and the DIY movement has transformed fame in the comedy world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Eleazar is also now getting used to a different side of the career: nascent fame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But Newton didn’t mellow with age and fame.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Varga was a member in the earliest incarnations of Gwar — famed for its outrageous costumes and blood-soaked sets — as Sexicutioner from 1985 to 1997.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Hutchins is pessimistic about staving off the ban and laments what it would mean for the city's famed French restaurants.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Hidden behind towering privacy hedges in Encino’s famed “Rancho Estates,” this multi-structure tennis court compound delivers the ultimate sanctuary where high-end luxury seamlessly meets practical family livability,” the listing describes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The famed Wachau winemaker Emmerich Knoll once told me: “You can taste 10 Grüner Veltliners and still cannot say, ‘I know what Grüner Veltliner tastes like.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

He would show her the famed tree that had a poet buried beneath it.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

In the 1930s, drought and bad faming methods destroyed 100 million acres of farmland around Oklahoma and forced families to leave, many for California.

From Time ● Apr. 10, 2015

In Strype's edition, 1720, he says, concerning this gate, "Leaving out the fable thereof faming it to be builded by King Belin, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ."

From Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various




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