notoriety
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That also led, this week, to an unveiling of what the younger Biden is really selling: a cryptocurrency token, themed around the device that brought him such notoriety.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Part of what makes Forest City "special", according to Kevin, Wojcik and others, is the very thing that has gained it so much notoriety: its reputation as a semi-abandoned "ghost city".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Controversies such as a 2002 autopsy performed in London -- on camera and before an audience —- further fuelled his notoriety.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Faye, and her husband/producing partner, have parlayed this notoriety into indie, cool-kid projects that are just commercial enough that some of the target audiences’ boomer parents may also watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Despite the notoriety Tobias now has among the Dauntless, and my new ti&e as That Girl Who Stabbed Eric, we are not the real focus of everyone’s attention.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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Few of our notorieties could be trusted to think out any economic or social problem thoroughly and efficiently.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
Others were drawn thither for the sake of Johnson's conversation, and thus it became a resort of many of the notorieties of the day.
From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Washington Irving
Notabilities as long as the Spanish money lasted—then notorieties.
From The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young
He did not, of course, pay any heed to the gossip that coupled her name with dukes and other notorieties.
From The Sorcery Club by Elliott O'Donnell
"The little miserable notorieties of a fishing-village—" "Coleraine, my Lord,—Coleraine," cried Dempsey.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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