fame
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A parade of ballgowns and swimsuits couldn’t compete with the decline of linear TV, the #MeToo movement and the rise of social media as a quicker pathway to fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her fame enjoyed a renaissance from the 1980s.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Despite her prevalence on the New York scene, Ms. Kusama struggled to find success while artists with whom she exhibited—and who often borrowed ideas from her uncredited—quickly achieved fame and a sizable market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The Northern Irish TV personality rose to fame in 2019 as a finalist on another dating show, Love Island, and more recently appeared on the US version of The Traitors.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
It was inside this famed establishment that filmmakers Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero first met one night back in 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Oysters are a staple of brunch menus and seafood buffets across Australia, with local varieties famed for their rich, creamy flavour.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 2023, human remains found on a glacier close to Switzerland's famed Matterhorn were confirmed to be those of a German climber who had been missing since 1986.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Matisse works, which police valued at roughly $190,000, came from the artist’s famed 1947 “Jazz” print series and featured images of a clown and a cowboy, among other imagery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The narrator, a famed marine biologist named Pierre Aronnax, works at the same museum as her father!
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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