cause celebre
Example Sentences
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While Sally’s children turn Champ’s legal troubles into a cause célèbre on social media, Sally and Corinne strategize about how to clear the terrier’s name.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Through it all she remained a cause célèbre and the Scottish press still loved a Big Mags story.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025
Not surprisingly, the grave miscarriage of justice in his case has attracted national and international attention and made it a cause célèbre for people opposed to the death penalty and many supporters of capital punishment.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2024
His conviction has become a cause célèbre in libertarian circles.
From Salon • May 26, 2024
The famous "Courier of Lyons," founded, indeed, upon a genuine cause célèbre, was a drama of this kind.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
