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It quickly became clear to Mr. Khan’s inner circle that Mr. Khan intended his illustriously pedigreed grandson, not his eldest son, to be the next nizam.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023

C.D.B., based in Kobe, was staffed with ambitious scientists who, freed from teaching obligations and equipped with sophisticated laboratories, were expected to make significant discoveries, and publish them illustriously.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 29, 2016

The illustriously bearded, scruffy-looking, braces-clad DIY film-maker is beaming in, true to form, via Skype from his Denver home.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2015

Their names ranged from illustrious to illustriously obscure.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was so slight a body, so tall and slender, but standing alert and illustriously posed, there was implied in her slenderness a rare strength and swiftness.

From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson




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