fame
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This behavioral trait is central to the archipelago’s historical fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
With its jokes about the inner workings of Hollywood agents at CAA and the trappings of fame and fortune, “Gail Daughtry” could easily feel like inside baseball.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
In the end however she was replaced by Mel C before the group went on to achieve worldwide fame as the Spice Girls.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The film stops several yellow bricks short of erecting a temple to the sacrifices of fame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Recorded live at the jazz festival 70 years ago, the famed rendition of ‘Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue’ reinvigorated the musician’s career and cemented his place in the genre’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Fan Tara Rosales was one of the many who were unconvinced the wedding would actually take place at the famed arena.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
The city’s music, famed for rough-hewn virtuosity from blues to soul to techno, is the spring that waters “Adversity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Like the Pardoner in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” or famed American showman P.T.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
On May 1, 1915, the British luxury liner Lusitania, famed as the biggest and fastest ship in Atlantic service, sailed from New York on a voyage to England.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
In the 1930s, drought and bad faming methods destroyed 100 million acres of farmland around Oklahoma and forced families to leave, many for California.
From Time ● Apr. 10, 2015
In Strype's edition, 1720, he says, concerning this gate, "Leaving out the fable thereof faming it to be builded by King Belin, a Briton, long before the incarnation of Christ."
From Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing fame
Academy Awards, List 5
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