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Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

An opera company’s stature, and even an art capital’s cultural repute, can rise or fall depending upon its ability to mount a “Ring” cycle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Oppenheimer’s repute as a theoretician was growing, but the rise in Lawrence’s professional stature was on a higher plane entirely.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Nobody reputes him to steal, an' I don't say he do.

From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable

O spare Antinous; The world reputes thee valiant, do not soyle All thy past nobleness with such a cowardize.

From The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Francis Beaumont

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

They shall see only silver and gold, houses and lands, reputes, supremacies, fames, and, as instrumental to these, the forms of logic and seemings of knowledge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

I daresay that other great London physicians, whom the world reputes worldly, often do similar charities by stealth.

From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Last year, the country’s security service said it had “effectively disabled” a Russian submarine with an underwater drone—a reputed first in warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The night ended with the skies being lit up by the reputed largest fireworks display ever in the US.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Grey-haired and mustachioed, Asfura is reputed to be a hard worker.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

A new father and still a relative unknown in national legal circles, Tung found an ally in pal Mike Davis, a reputed “judge whisperer” in Trump’s orbit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

Although my father could neither read nor write, he was reputed to be an excellent orator who captivated his audiences by entertaining them as well as teaching them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Whereby apeareth, how he esteemed learning, and what felicity he putte therin, reputing al the worlde saue him selfe to be inferiour to Diogenes.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record

Ouer his kinred, hee held a warie and charie care, which bountifully was expressed, when occasion so required, reputing himselfe, not onely principall of the family, but a generall father to them all.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

The friar now perceiving that Ser Ciappelletto had nothing more to say, gave him absolution and his blessing, reputing him for a most holy man, fully believing that all that he had said was true.

From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg