renowned
Example Sentences
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"They're renowned for building dams that hold back the flow of water," he said.
From BBC
Sydnexis invited Robert Clark, a renowned pediatric ophthalmologist, to accompany its executives to a meeting with FDA staff last month to address the agency’s criticism.
Born in southern Iran's Shiraz, the hometown of the renowned Persian poet Hafez, Saidian emigrated to Israel in 1998 at the age of 18, followed by her parents a few years later.
From Barron's
A native of Bologna, Carracci was renowned in his early career for such unidealized, close-up scenes of everyday life, and his first paintings speak to the moment, and market, that Caravaggio would cultivate.
Pershing Square was once renowned for its activism, though its focus has shifted to taking bigger stakes in fewer big companies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
