fame
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Who’s ready to have this wild fame brought on them at such a young age?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
His late ’90s breakthrough in the triple-hitter lineup of “Halloween: H20,” “The Faculty” and “The Virgin Suicides” catapulted him to international fame practically overnight, cementing his place alongside the era’s Tiger Beat celebrity infatuations.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Matarazzo shot to fame in 2016 as endearing super-geek Dustin Henderson - a role he calls "the greatest honour of his life".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Eleazar’s ferocious performance as Misty is set to elevate her to a new level of fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She married him after a short courtship but soon realized that her husband was obsessed with wealth and fame.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
But research into the life story of Vanke, now living in Breaston, Derbyshire, has written a new chapter on the history of Bletchley Park's famed codebreakers.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Varga was a member in the earliest incarnations of Gwar — famed for its outrageous costumes and blood-soaked sets — as Sexicutioner from 1985 to 1997.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
North Carolina's famed Highway 12, which traces the razor-thin chain of barrier islands off its coast, was washed out this week, stranding some island residents from the mainland.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Fans scrutinized the British soul singer Lola Young when they discovered that her relative is the famed children’s book author Julia Donaldson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The people of Isfahan ventured to the center of the strange neighborhood to stand in line, before the famed bakery of Akh Tamar, just for six of his cream puffs.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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